CL 28 - Classical Mythology - Lectures 3 and 4
Creation Myths: the Emergence of the Olympians - The Ages of Mankind

Chaos

Gaea / Gaia

Tartarus

Eros

Mnemosyne

The Muses: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Polyhymnia (mime), Melpomone (tragedy),

Thalia (comedy), Erato (lyric choral poetry), Euterpe (the flute), Terpsichore (light verse and

dance), Urania (astronomy)

Uranus / Ouranos

Pontus

Titans

Cronus / Kronos

Rhea

Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Hera

Aphrodite

Athena

Hekate

Themis and Prometheus (w/ Zeus = Horai: Eumonia, Dike, Eirene)

Metis (Athena)

Eurynome (Graces: Splendor, Gladness, Festivity)

Leto (Apollo and Artemis)

Persephone

Hephaestus / Hephaistos

Ares

Hebe

Mnemosyne

Typhoeus / Typhon

Gilgamesh, Marduk, Enuma Elish, Tiamat

Oceanus and Tethys

Titanomachy

Gigantomachy

Chalcis, Euboea

Mt. Helikon

Mesopotamia

Sumerians

Babylonians

Mekone of Sicyon

Pandora

Epimetheus

Herakles

Elysian Fields

Deucalion

Pyrrha

Hellen

ambrosia

nectar

xenia

omphalos

Hesiod (eighth century B.C.) Theogony

Apollodorus (c. 140 B.C.)

Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17) Metamorphoses

Aeschylus

IMAGES

• "Saturno" by Francisco de Goya, 1820 -1823. Cronus / Saturn eating his child. 143.5 x 81.4 cm. Luna/Heras. Goya: 250 Aniversario. Museo del Prado: 1996. cat. 158, p. 261
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• Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1485-86. Painted for the villa of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici at Castello. Tempera on canvas, (67 7/8 x 109 5/8 in). Fleming, William. Art and Ideas. 9th ed. Harcourt Brace College Publishers: 1995 p. 277, fig. 9.26
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• Imperial Roman sarcophagus, 1st - 2nd c. AD. Frontal view: Apollo, Athena and the seven Muses. Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, England. Moncrieff, A.R. Hope. A Treasury of Classical Mythology. Barnes & Noble, Inc. 1992. p. 102
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• Zeus prepares to strike Typhon with a thunderbolt. Chalcidian Black-figure hydria, 540 - 530. Below: panthers and goats. Names above figures. H. 46 cm. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Color Plate XVIII
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• Athena's birth from the head of Zeus - earliest vase-painted depiction. Hephaestus (left), Poseidon (right), and 4 goddesses attend. Detail of 1 of the 3 feet. Attic Black-Figure exaleiptron (ointment container) by the C Painter, ca. 570 - 565. H. 12.5 cm. Diam. 25 cm. Paris, Louvre. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Plate 59 below
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• Delphi: omphalos, Hellenistic or Roman. S. Larson's postcard

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