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Saturno Devouring One of his Children
Francisco Goya y Lucientes,
1821-1823,
Zeus of Artemesium
artist unknown ca. 460 BC,
Jupiter and Thetis
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 1811
"George Washington (as Phidian Zeus)"
Horatio Greenough, 1840
"The Birth of Venus,"
Sandro Botticelli, c. 1486
"Prometheus"
Gustave Moreau, 1868
"Prometheus Stealing Fire"
Paul Manship, 1933
"Mars and Venus"
Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1485
Artemis of Ephesus
1st Century AD, Roman
Diana
E.J. Clack, 1954
Apollo Belvedere
mid-2nd Century AD Roman
Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, ca. 1624
"Mercury"
Giovanni da Bologna 1564
"Hermes with the Infant Dionysus,"
Praxiteles,mid 4th Century BC
Exekias
530 BC
2 Olympians removed
Hades- never seen on Olympus
Hestia- displaced by Dionysus
Creation of Pandora
"the beautiful evil"
retaliation for fire- theft
Who was Epimetheus?
Prometheus' brother, "after thought", didn't listen to warnings, was given Pandora
Prometheus' name and what it means
"forethinking"
knows the secret of Thetis
Themis
Prometheus' mother
events at Mekone
Prometheus tricks Zeus
-gives men the good stuff and Zeus the junk
Hesiod says Zeus knew
Titan Iapetus
Prometheus' father
pro-Zeus
Gigantomachy
Zeus leads Olympians, crushes Giants
Titanomachy
Zeus leads Olympians, crushes Titans (Cronus)
Zeus is a champion of justice according to who?
Hesiod
Results of the castration of Uranus
1. Titan rise/Uranus demise
2. Aphrodites
3. The Erinyes (furies) conceived
Rhea and Cronus' children
some of the Olympians:
Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus
Hera and Zeus
Present Heiros Gamos
Children:some of Olympians
Ge and Uranus
children = Titans:
Hyperion, Iapetus, Rhea, Cronus
Hieros Gamos
sacred marriage
1. Ge and Uranus
2. Rhea and Cronus
3. Hera and Zeus
Inherent conflicts in Hesiod's account
-matriarchal vs. patriarchal
-rising vs. established generations
-sky vs. earth
Hesiod ve. Ovid's chaos
yawning void vs. crude unformed mass of elements
the works of
1.Homer
2. Hesiod
3. Ovid
1.Illiad &Odyessy
2. Theogony and Works & Days
3. Metamorphoses
Semele
Daughter of King Cadmus, mother of Dionysus, dies after seeing Zeus
Newcomer God
Dionysus
the embodiment of the power of living things — animal or vegetable
Dionysus
The Bacchae of Euripides
Agave, sister of Semele, the mother of Pentheus Cadmus, grandfather of Pentheus and retired king
Tiresias, priest of traditional religion
Pentheus as adversary of the newcomer god... becomes a sacrificial victim
The Pirates who abducted Dionysus
Master Image, Exekias
turns pirates into dolphins
Dionysus saves who from what?
Ariadne, from life alone on an island after Theseus dumps her there, she triumphs
a mystical type of salvations
entheos
: possession by god, ecstatic state of having the "god inside
"This "enthusiasm" is not drunkenness, but ecstasy caused by the god.
sparagmos
: rending of living animal
omophagia
:eating of raw flesh — a ritual communion
thiasus
: sacred band of the god
thyrsus
: wand wreathed with ivy and topped with pinecone
Variant of Dionysus’ birth
Zeus + Persephone = Zagreus
-In the Titanomachy, the Titans kill Zagreus; Zeus eats his heart and later bears Dionysus.
Argeïphontes (“slayer of Argus”)
Hermes: his role in the Io myth (a role he plays later in life)
Who invented the Lyre?
Hermes
Hermes is god of...?
god of commerce, eloquence, invention, travel, and theft
The liminal deity
Hermes: "threshold, boundary"
Takes souls to the undreworld
A young god, rising to take Zeus' place perhaps in the future?
Apollo
Healer and bringer of plague
Apollo
Who is Apollo's mother and where was her born?
Leto, Delos
Pythian Apollo
god of Delphi
Omphalos
"Navel" a large round stone, meant to mean that Delphi is the navel of the world
pythia
Prophetess of Apollo, uttered the responses of the god.
Three who consulted the Delphic Oracle:
1. Croesus — “If you invade, a great kingdom shall fall.”
2. Oedipus — “You will murder your father and marry your mother.”
3. Socrates — “Know Thyself.” ΓΝΟΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ.
Why is laurel sacred to Apollo
the story of Daphne and Apollo
The Cumaean Sibyl
A sibyl is a prophetess, this one denied Apollo and wished to live as many years as she had sand in her hand
Apollo and Cassandra
Apollo gave Cassandra the ability of prophesies, but she refused his love, so now no one will believe her prophesies
Apollo’s Musical Contest with Marsyas
Satyr picks up Athena's flute and challenges Apollo, Apollo wins and flays Marsyas
Potnia Theron
Mistress of the Beasts- Artemis
Niobe and Her Children
Niobe boasts against Leto and Artemis and Apollo kill all but one of her children
catasterism
turning a person into a constalation
Orion
One version (ML p. 226): Orion blinded and catasterized for attempted rape of Artemis
Diana was the chief deity of?
the Latin League
Artemis, Selene, and Hecate
Artemis on earth, Selene in the heavens, Hecate in netherworld
Galatea
prefers Acis over Polyphemus
(a Cyclops, son of Poseidon)
Acis, in other literature, son of Faunus and Symaethis
Proteus
Attendant of Poseidon (sometimes his son)
Seer
Ability to change shape, protean
an Old Man of the Sea
Poseidon
In Trojan War he supports the Greeks, for Laomedon’s deceipt
Contest with Athena for the primacy of Athens
He offers a salt spring (“thalassocracy”) and (in Roman version) a horse;
Athena offers the first olive tree.
Three Important Nereids
Thetis
Galatea: prefers Acis over Polyphemus
Amphitrite cf. iconography in Poussin's "Triumph" on ML p. 169
Consort of Poseidon- this union binds Poseidon to another marine lineage Triton