Classics 1020: Classical Mythology

 
 
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Perseus and Bellerophon

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Baby Perseus in the chest, with Danae & Acrisius

Danae, Perseus, and the chest being built

Map of mainland Greece

Hera (?) and Perseus, BF by Nessos painter

Perseus beheads Medusa on a metope from Selinus (Sicily), also Athena and Pegasus

Perseus sneaks up on sleeping Medusa, with Athena and Hermes

Perseus, Medusa, and Athena

Perseus carries off the Gorgon's head in his kibisis

[Upper image]: Perseus with the Gorgon's head, terracotta plaque from Thermon

Bronze statuette of Perseus and the head of Medusa by B. Cellini, Piazza della
Signoria, Florence : note attributes (scimitar, kibisis, winged hat & sandals)

Perseus pursued by Gorgons, BF vase by Dinos

Gorgons on proto-Attic amphora from Eleusis, ca. 700 B.C.

Closeup of proto-Attic Gorgons from Eleusis

BF Gorgons by the Nessos painter

Medusa with Pegasus, metope from temple at Gela (Sicily), ca. 525 B.C.

Perseus rescues Andromeda, Roman fresco from Pompeii, A.D. 79, now in Naples

Perseus and Andromeda with Pegasus, by P. P. Rubens

Bellerophon fights the Chimaera (RF vase)

Bronze Chimaera from Arezzo, Etruscan, 5th c. B.C., now in Florence

 

 

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