Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Athens, Acropolis Museum 1.587: Attic black figure dinos fragment by Sophilos, Chariklo iconiclimc Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦ London, British Museum, 1971,1101.1: Attic black-figure dinos by Sophilos (“The Erskine Dinos”), wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Cheiron, Hebe, Dionysos, … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 146, with art)
Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Euripides, Bakchai 103 for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey Greek Text ♠ Aischylos, Eumenides 25-26 ever since he, as a god, led the Bacchantes in war, and contrived for Pentheus death as of a hunted hare. Greek … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 143, with art)
Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 63.952: Attic black-figure amphora with Dionysos and Silenoi making wine Museum of Fine Ats Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦ Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection Kä 420: Attic black-figure amphora by Amasis Painter with … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 138, with art)
Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 4209: Attic black-figure volute krater from Chiusi (François Krater) with Dionysos bringing Hephaistos back to Olympos, accompanied by Silenoi (named) and Nymphai (named) Hellenica World Flickr photo A. Furtwaengler and K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 136, with art)
Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Florence, Museo Archeologico 4209: Attic black-figure krater by Kleitias and Egotimos (François Krater), with return of Hephaistos, led by Dionysos, with awaiting deities (from right to left) Aphrodite, Zeus, Hera, Athena and Ares Details of pls. 11-12 from … Continue reading Olympos (page 123 upper, with art)
Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 18.203-4 but Achilles, dear to Zeus, roused him, and round about his mighty shoulders Athene flung her tasselled aegis. Greek Text ♠ Homer, Iliad 24.20-21 and with the golden aegis he covered him wholly, that Achilles might not tear his body as … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Athena (page 85, with art)
Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Olympia, Archaeological Museum B8402b: bronze shield-band with enthroned Hera, crippled Hephaistos and Dionysos? Digital LIMC, photo Archaeological Museum of Olympia ♦ Foggia, Museo Civico 132723: Apulian red-figure amphora with Hephaistos with axe and Hera on throne YOU reporter ♦ St. … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Hephaistos (page 76, with art)
Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 1.590-94 “On a time before this, when I was striving to save you, he [Zeus] caught me by the foot and hurled me from the heavenly threshold; the whole day long I was carried headlong, and at sunset I … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Hephaistos (page 75, with art)
Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Naples, Museo Nazionale Archeologico 81666 (H3222): Apulian red-figure volute krater, judges of the Underworld with Triptolemos on left Photos from David Saunders, “Ancient Vase Presents a Who’s Who of the Underworld,” The Iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty, November 23, … Continue reading The Children of Kronos: Demeter (page 70 upper, only with art)