Classics 1020: Classical Mythology

 
 
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Theseus

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Map of ancient Athens

Birth of Erichthonius with Athena

Athena with baby Erichthonius

Labors of Theseus between Troezen and Athens, RF by Codrus painter, ca. 440 BC

Detail of #4: Theseus fights Sinis, Crommyon sow

Detail of #4: Theseus fights Sciron & turtle, bull of Marathon

Detail of #4: Theseus fights Cercyon, Procrustes

Detail of #4: Theseus and the minotaur

Map, from Troezen to Athens around the Saronic gulf

Aegeus, Theseus, Medea (?)

Aegeus, Medea (?), Theseus, Poseidon

Amphitrite receives Theseus and Athena in hall of Poseidon

Map, from Athens to Crete

Bronze age palace of Minos at Knossos, Crete: aerial view

Bull-leaping fresco from Palace at Knossos

Pasiphae, Daedalus, and the mechanical cow. Fresco from House of the Vettii,
Pompeii

Pablo Picasso, Minotauromachia (1935). Indiana Univ Mus of Art, Bloomington

Theseus versus the Minotaur. Attic BF

Theseus versus the Minotaur. Attic RF

Theseus after defeating the Minotaur, fresco from Herculaneum

P. P. Rubens, The Fall of Icarus. Brussels: Mus des Beaux-Arts

Marc Chagall, Icarus (1975). Paris

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Fall of Icarus, ca. 1554-55. Brussels: Mus des Beaux-Arts

Detail of #23: Brueghel's Icarus

Hermes leads Theseus to sleeping Ariadne; Attic RF in Tarquinia

Athena discovers Theseus and Ariadne

John Vanderlyn, Ariadne on Naxos

Dionysus and Ariadne, the Derveni bronze krater

Theseus fights Antiope, Amazon queen. RF by Niobid painter, ca. 460 BC

Theseus (or Pirithous) being rescued by Herakles from the Underworld

 

 

 

 

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