CL 28 - Classical Mythology

Lectures 5 and 6 - The Olympians: Zeus, Hera, Hephaistos and Ares

Zeus (Roman: Jupiter)

Cronus (Roman: Saturn)

Demeter (Roman: Ceres)

Hestia, the virgin goddess caring for the Olympian hearth (Roman: Vesta)

Poseidon (Roman: Neptune)

Hades (Roman: Pluto, Dis)

Persephone (Roman: Proserpina)

Hera (Roman: Juno)

Hephaestus, the lame smith, Hera's son (Roman: Vulcanus)

Ares (Roman: Mars)

Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth (Roman: Lucina)

Hebe, a personification of youth (Roman: Juventas)

Athene (Roman: Minerva)

Phoebus Apollo (Roman: Phoebus Apollo)

Artemis (Roman: Diana)

Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis

Hermes (Roman: Mercury)

Maia, mother of Hermes

Aphrodite (Roman: Venus)

Dione

Eros

Dionysus (Roman: Liber)

Semele, mother of Dionysus

Moirae, the Fates

Europa, Callisto, Io, Alcmene, Danae, Ganymede (various lovers of Zeus)

Herodotus (fifth century B.C.)

Homer (eighth century B.C.)

Hesiod (eighth century B.C.)

Olympia, Elis

Dodona, Epirus

Argos, Argolid

Peloponnese

Lemnos

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Images

• Zeus or Poseidon. From sea off Cape Artemision. Bronze, ca. 460 - 450 BC.
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• Europa and Zeus (as bull). Attic Red-figure bell krater by the Berlin Painter, 500-490. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmer Verlag, Munich: 1981. Color Plate XXXV
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• Post-classical sculpture of Leda and the Swan, from the Villa Borghese, Rome.
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• Dodona: view of oak and sanctuary of Zeus Naios.
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• Olympia. Plan of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia; Temple of Zeus, Philippeum, Pheidias' workshop, stadium, Echo Stoa, House of Nero, Pelopion, Altar to Zeus. Talbert, Richard J.A., Atlas of Classical History. Routledge, London: 1985. p. 41
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• Hera. Head of statue from Olympia.
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• Temple of Hera (Heraion) at Argos. View of foundation of the new temple, middle terrace.
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• Return of Hephaistos depicted on a Corinthian column krater. Hephaistos rides on a mule, escorted by Dionysos, with padded dancers holding drinking vessels. First quarter of the sixth century B.C. h. 32.5 cm. British Museum. Green, Richard and Eric Handley. Images of the Greek Theatre. University of Texas Press, Austin: 1995. p. 15, fig. 1.
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• Francois Vase, from "Side B" of the Attic Black-figure volute krater by Klitias (painter) and Ergotimos (potter), 570 -565. Detail: Ares in armor kneeling before Aphrodite. H. 66 cm, Diam 57 cm. Phylactopoulos, G, ed. History of the Hellenic World: The Archaic Period. Ekdotike Ellados, Athens: 1975. pp 82-83

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