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. ♠ Homer, Iliad 2.742-44 Polypoetes, staunch … 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 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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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)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Dresden, Albertinum 350: Attic red-figure calyx krater with Persephone, Hermes and Silenoi P. Herrmann, “Erwerbungen der Antikensammlungen in Deutschland,” Archäologischer Anzeiger 1892, 166 fig. 33 N. Des Vergers, L’Étrurie et les Étrusques: ou, Dix ans de fouilles dans les Maremmes toscanes, … Continue reading The Children of Kronos: Demeter (page 68, with art)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 906-11 And Eurynome, the daughter of Ocean, beautiful in form, bore him three fair-cheeked Charites （Graces）, Aglaea, and Euphrosyne, and lovely Thaleia, from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs. Greek Text ♠ Homer, Iliad … Continue reading The Titanomachia and Zeus’ Rise to Power (page 54)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Tags: #Zeus Philodemos, Kypria fr 2 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 45, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987. = Hesiod fr 210 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 107, ed. Merkelbach and M.L. West. Oxford 1967. Aischylos, Eumenides 2-3 the first prophet, … Continue reading The Titanomachia and Zeus’ Rise to Power (page 53)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Olympia, Archaeological Museum B1687: bronze shield-band relief with the birth of Athena E. Kunze, Archaische Schildbänder, Olympische Forschungen 2 (1950), Beilage 6 top ♦ Paris, Musée du Louvre: Attic black-figure tripod pyxis by C Painter with birth of Athena Flickr photo … Continue reading The Titanomachia and Zeus’ Rise to Power (page 52, with art)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Scholia b to Homer, Iliad 2.783 – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem 3, pp. 148-49, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1877. Greek Text ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 886-900 Now Zeus, king of the gods, made Metis his wife first, and she … Continue reading The Titanomachia and Zeus’ Rise to Power (page 51, with art)
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