Subject tags for mythological characters

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Zeus, Munich, Antikensammlungen 596

There are two kinds of searches possible for this web site. The first type, which is comprehensive, involves just entering a mythological character’s name in the search box over the left menu bar (please be certain to use the same spelling of the character’s name as in Gantz’s Early Greek Myth). This type of search will pull up every page where your character is mentioned. The second way to search is a subject search; in this type of search, the same search box is used, but the name of the mythological character must be preceded by a pound symbol (#), as in “#Orpheus“. This type of search, called a tag search, will lead you only to pages that emphasize the character, as in the case of Orpheus. Please note that you can combine more than one character’s name in a search, by simply putting a space between the names, as in “#Smyrna/Myrrha #Adonis”. If the character(s) has more than one word identifying him/her/them, the plus symbol (+) should be inserted between each of the different words in the name, as in “#Daughters+of+Minyas“. When there is a subject tag(s) at the bottom of a page with literary and/or artistic sources, clicking on the tag, as in #Zeus, will cause all the pages with the same tag to display.

Please note that at this point, the second type of search, with character tags, has only been set up for Chapters 1-5, the first part of Chapter 14, and Chapter 18, with an emphasis on the artistic representations from these chapters. However, the tags for the literary sources for Chapters 1-5, 14 and 18 and for other chapters will be put up as the menu is restructured and more literary and artistic sources are added. As more chapters are given tags, they will be mentioned in this paragraph, and the character names will be added to the list below.

A:

#Achilleus, #Admetos, #Adonis, #Agamemnon, #Aias+son+of+Oileus, #Aias+son+of+Telamon, #Aigina, #Aigisthos, #Aineias, #Aiolos, #Aithra, #Akamas, #Akastos, #Aktaion, #Aletes+son+of+Aigisthos, #Alkmaion, #Alkmene, #Aloadai, #Amphiaraos, #Amphilochos+son+of+Amphiaraos, #Amphion, #Amphitrite, #Amphitryon, ##Anchises, #Andromache+wife+of+Hektor, #Anesidora, #Antenor, #Antikleia, #Antilochos, #Antiope+I (mother of Amphion and Zethos), #Antiope+wife+of+Laokoon, #Antiphates+son+of+Melampous, #Aphrodite, #Apollo, #apple, #Ares, #Ariadne, #arms+of+Achilleus#Artemis, #Askanios, #Astyanax, #Atalanta, #Athamas, #Athena, #Augeias, #Autoboulos, #Autolykos

B:

#basket, #battlements+of+Troy, #bearskin, #boar, #boarskin, #Boreas, #Briseis, #bull

C:

#cattle, #Chariklo, #Charon, #Charybdis, #Cheiron, #Chimaira, #Chryse, #Chrysippos, #Chrysothemis, #cock

D:

#Danae, #Daphne, #Daughters+of+Minyas, #deer, #deerskin#Deianeira, #Deidameia, #Deiphobos, #Delphic+tripod, #Demeter, #Demophon, #Diomedes, #Dionysos, #Dirke, #dog, #dogs, #Dryad, #Dryas

E:

#eagle, #eidola, #Eileithuia, #Elektra+daughter+of+Agamemnon, #Eleusis, #Elpenor, #Eos, #Epimetheus, #Erigone+daughter+of+Aigisthos, #Erinyes, #Erinys, #Eriphyle, #Eris, #Eros, #Erysichthon, #Eumaios, #Euopis, #Euphorbos, #Eurykleia, #Eurylochos, #Eurypylos

G:

#Gaia, #Ganymedes, #Galene, #Geryoneus, #Gigantes, #Glaukos, #Gorgons, #Graiai

H:

#Hades, #Harmonia, #Harpuiai, #Head+of+Orpheus, #Hebe, #Heimarmene, #Hekabe, #Hekate, #Hektor#Helen, #Helios, #Helle, #Hellen, #Hephaistos, #Hera, #Herakles, #Hermes, #Hesperides, #Hestia, #Himeros, #Hind, #Hippalkimos, #Hyakinthos, #Hyades, #Hydra, #Hypnos

I:

#Iason, #Idas, #Ikarios, #Ino, #Iolaos, #Iphigeneia, #Iphikles, #Iphitos, #Iris, #Ixion

K:

#Kadmos, #Kaineus, #Kallisto, #Kalypso, #Kanake, #Kapaneus, #Kassandra#Kastor, #Kentauroi, #Kentauros, #Kephalos, #Ker, #Kerberos, #kerykeion, #Kirke#Klytaimestra, #Klytios, #Kokalos, #Kouretes, #Kreousa, #Kresphontes, #Kronos, #Kybele, #Kyknos, #Kyrene

L:

#Laertes, #Laios, #Laodameia+nurse+of+Orestes, #Laokoon, #Leto, #Linos, #lion, #lionskin, #Lykaon, #Lykos, #Lykomedes#Lykourgos, #Lyssa

M:

#Mainades, #Maira, #Makareus, #Mania, #Marpessa, #Marsyas, #Medousa, #Megara, #Melanion, #Melanippe, #Memnon, #Menelaos, #Metis, #Midas, #Minos, #Misenos, #Moirai, #Mopsos

N:

#Nausikaa, #Nemean+Lion, #Nemesis, #Neoptolemos, #Nephele, #Nereides, #Nereus, #Nessos, #Nestor, #Nymphai, #Nyx

O:

#Odysseus, #Odysseus’+transformed+men, #Oidipous, #Oinone#Oinopion, #Okeanos, #Oknos, #Olympians, #omphalos, #Ophis, #Oreithuia, #Orestes, #Orpheus, #Orthos, #Ouranos

P:

#Pan, #Pandora, #Paris, #Patroklos, #Pegasos, #Peirithoos, #Peitho, #Peleus, #Pelias, #Pelops, #Penelope, #Penthesileia, #Pentheus, #Periboia, #Persephone, #Perseus, #Phaon, #Pheres, #Philoktetes, #Phoinix, #Phokos, #Pholos, #Phrixos, #pirates, #Polites, #Polyboia, #Polybos, #Polyphemos, #Polyxena, #Pompe, #Pontos, #Poseidon, #Priam, #priestess, #Prometheus, #Pylades, #Pythia, #Python

R:

#ram, #raven, #Rheia, #rock

S:

#Sack+of+Troy, #Salmoneus, #Sarpedon, #Satyroi, #scales, #Seiren, #Seirenes, #Selene, #Semele, #ship, #Silenoi, #Silenos, #Sisyphos, #Skylla, #Skythian, #Smyrna/Myrrha, #snake, #Sphinx, #statue, #Sthenelos, #suitors, #sword

T:

#Talthybios, #Tantalos#Tekmessa, #Telamedes, #Telemachos, #Telephos, #temple, #Teukros, #Thamyris, #Thanatos, #Theano, #Thebe, #Thersites, #Theseus, #Thetis, #Thracian+women, #thunderbolt, #Thyone, #Timandra, #Titans, #Tithonos, #Tityos, #Triptolemos, #Triton, #Troilos, #Trojan+Horse, #trophos, #Tyndareos, #Typhoeus

W:

#wheel, #wine+cup, #wine+pithos, #wineskin

Z:

#Zephyros, #Zethos, #Zeus

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Ixion (page 718)

    Chapter 18: Other Myths

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Homer, Iliad 14.317-18

I was seized with love of the wife of Ixion, who bare Peirithous, the peer of the gods in counsel.  Greek Text

Pindar, Pythian 2.25-44

He learned a clear lesson. For although he received a sweet life among the gracious children of Cronus, he did not abide his prosperity for long, when in his madness of spirit he desired Hera, who was allotted to the joyful bed of Zeus. But his arrogance drove him to extreme delusion; and soon the man suffered a suitable [30] exquisite punishment. Both of his crimes brought him toil in the end. First, he was the hero who, not without guile, was the first to stain mortal men with kindred blood; second, in the vast recesses of that bridal chamber he once made an attempt on the wife of Zeus. A man must always measure all things according to his own place. [35] Unnatural lust throws men into dense trouble; it befell even him, since the man in his ignorance chased a sweet fake and lay with a cloud, for its form was like the supreme celestial goddess, the daughter of Cronus. The hands of Zeus set it as a trap for him, [40] a beautiful misery. Ixion brought upon himself the four-spoked fetter, his own ruin. He fell into inescapable bonds, and received the message that warns the whole world. She bore to him, without the blessing of the Graces, a monstrous offspring—there was never a mother or a son like this—honored neither by men nor by the laws of the gods. She raised him and named him Centaurus.  Greek Text

Pindar, Pythian 2.42-43

She bore to him, without the blessing of the Graces, a monstrous offspring—there was never a mother or a son like this—honored neither by men nor by the laws of the gods.  Greek Text

Scholion at Pindar, Pythian 2.40b – Scholia vetera in Pindari carmina, Vol. 2, pp. 38-39, ed. A.B Drachman. Leipzig 1903.

Greek Text

Diodoros Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica 4.69.3-4

He [Ixion], the story goes, having promised that he would give many gifts of wooing to Eïoneus, married Dia, the daughter of Eïoneus, by whom he begat Peirithoüs\. But when afterward Ixion would not pay over the gifts of wooing to his wife, Eïoneus took as security for these his mares. Ixion thereupon summoned Eïoneus to come to him, assuring that he would comply in every respect, but when Eïoneus arrived he cast him into a pit which he had filled with fire. Because of the enormity of this crime no man, we are informed, was willing to purify him of the murder. The myths recount, however, that in the end he was purified by Zeus, but that he became enamoured of Hera and had the temerity to make advances to her.  Greek Text

Tags:

#Ixion

Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, February 2022

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