Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pindar, Pythian 4.119 The divine centaur called me by the name Jason. Greek Text ♠ Pindar fr 166 SM – Pindarus 2, p. 121, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975. When the Centaurs knew the man-taming … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 144, with art)
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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)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ AR 4.1396-1407 – Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautika but they came to the sacred plain where Ladon, the serpent of the land, till yesterday kept watch over the golden apples in the garden of Atlas; and all around the nymphs, the Hesperides, were busied, chanting their lovely song. … Continue reading Labor XI: The Garden of the Hesperides (page 413 upper, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Paus 5.11.5 – Pausanias, Description of Greece The other parts [of screens around the cult statue of Zeus in his temple at Olympia] show pictures by Paneanus. Among them is Atlas, supporting heaven and earth, by whose side stands Heracles ready to receive the load of Atlas. … Continue reading Labor XI: The Garden of the Hesperides (page 412, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Peisandros fr 3 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 168, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987. same as ♠ Theseis, fr 2 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 136, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987. same as ♠ Pherekydes 3F71 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, … Continue reading Labor III: The Keryneian/Kerynitian Hind (page 386 lower, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Lyk 38-39 – Lykophron, Alexandra he the slayer of his children, the destroyer of my fatherland; who smote his second mother, invulnerable with grievous shaft upon the breast. Greek Text ♠ Lyk 1327-28 – Lykophron, Alexandra he went with the wild beast, the Initiate, who drew the milky … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 378 upper, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Herodoros 31F15 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 218-19, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Σ Lyk 932 – Tzetzes, Scholia to Lykophron, Alexandra – Lykophronis Alexandra 2, pp. 883-86, ed E. Scheer. Berlin 1908 Greek Text ♠ Ovid, … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 377, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Chest of Kypselos from temple of Hera at Olympia (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions) ♠ Paus 5.18.3 – Pausanias, Description of Greece A man wearing a tunic is holding in his right hand a cup, and in his left a necklace; Alcmena … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 375, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pherekydes 3F120 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 92, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Scholia at Homer, Odyssey 19. 432: Philonis, daughter of Dion, lived in Parnassos where she lay with Apollo 〈and Hermes〉; for she possessed such a lovely beauty … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Apollo (page 94, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 19.114-19 But Hera darted down and left the peak of Olympus, and swiftly came to Achaean Argos, where she knew was the stately wife of Sthenelus, son of Perseus, that bare a son in her womb, and lo, the seventh month was come. This … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Hebe and Eileithuia (page 83 upper, with art)
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