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)
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 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Scholia at Pindar, Olympian 3, fr 3 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 168, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987. ♠ Pherekydes 3F71 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 80, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Scholion at … Continue reading Labor III: The Keryneian/Kerynitian Hind (page 386 lower, with art)
Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Lykophron, Alexandra 38-39 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 ♠ Lykophron, Alexandra 1327-28 he went with the wild beast, the Initiate, who drew the milky … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 378 upper, with art)
Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Herodoros 31F15 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 218-19, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Tzetzes, Scholia to Lykophron, Alexandra 932 – Lykophronis Alexandra 2, pp. 883-86, ed E. Scheer. Berlin 1908 Greek Text ♠ Ovid, Ibis 361-62 … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 377, with art)
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) ♠ Pausanias 5.18.3 A man wearing a tunic is holding in his right hand a cup, and in his left a necklace; Alcmena is taking hold of … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 375, with art)
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)
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)
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 ♦ 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)