CL 28 - Classical Mythology

Lecture 19 - The House of Danaus I

Io
Argus, 100-eyed monster
Aegyptus
Epaphus
Memphis
Danaus
Hypermnestra and Lynceus
Perseus
Danae, his mother
Acrisius, her father
Dictys, Perseus's foster father
King Polydectes, Dictys's brother 

The Graeae, three old hags with one eye between them
Medusa, one of the three Gorgon sisters; turns men into stone
Stheno (strength) and Euryale (far-leaper) - Gorgons 

Ceto
Pegasus, the winged horse
Chrysaor
Cepheus and Cassiopeia
Andromeda, Ethiopian princess, later Perseus's wife
Bellerophon, Pegasus's rider
Chimera 

Io's wanderings: Ionian Sea, Pindus Range, Macedonia, Thrace, Bosporus, Scythia, Caucasus Mts., Anatolia, Egypt
Island of Seriphos 

Kibisis
scimitar
apotropaic
metope

IMAGES

• Boar hunting and funeral games. Francois Vase. The top scene shows Atalanta and Meleager hunting the boar that terrorized Calydon in Aetolia. The lower frieze shows the galloping chariots of the funeral games of Patroclus at Troy with the prizes depicted among them. By Cleitias / Kleitias, ca. 570 B.C. Florence, Museo Archeologico, 4209.
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• Danae. Attic pottery. Kalyx krater. Triptolemos Painter. from Cerveteri. ca 490 - 480. Danae--having been imprisoned in an underground chamber by her father Akrisios--is being impregnated by Zeus' golden shower, which falls directly on her genital region. Reeder, Ellen. Pandora: Women in Classical Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. p. 269
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• Perseus beheads Medusa. Attic Black-figure olpe by the Amasis Painter, middle of the 6th c. BC. Detail: Perseus slays the Gorgon Medusa. Potter's signature at left.
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• Perseus, attended by Athena, slaying the Gorgon Medusa, ca. 560 - 550 BCE. Temple C at Selinus (Selinunte). Metope. Photo CD: Greek Architecture & Architectural Sculpture: Archaic Period and Architectural Techniques (GAS-100-17)
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• Perseus and Andromeda. vase painting.

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