Classic Greek Artemis Portmia Theron: Wings, Protector/ Controller of flanking Wild Beasts
Classic Greek Artemis Portmia Theron: Wings, Protector/ Controller of flanking Wild Beasts
Artemis/Diana the Hunter: holding
torches, chasing deer w/ dog
Artemis (detail of slide 106): holding torch and bow, watching
Actaeon metamorphosize into deer and get eaten by dogs
Protector Artemis: wings, bow & arrow, petting/protecting
baby animal
Romans praying/burning incense to Artemis/Diana before hunting boar
Artemis punishing Actaeon
Artemis Punishing Actaeon (see slide 102 above): notice figure on far left, supposed to represent rabies/madness of the dogs
Family bringing young girl to dedicate as a “bear” to Artemis at Brauron (note
sacrificial ox, and tools of sacrifice hidden in box on head)
Statue of a “bear” at Brauron, carrying a rabbit-sacrifice to Artemis
Fragment showing bear(?)-headed priestess of Artemis at Brauron
Artemis at Ephesus (Asia Minor): Many
breasts/eggs/testicle necklace= fertility goddess
Tholos at Epidaurus Complex (honoring Asklepius the healer): round
building w/ maze in basement where patients locked-up w/ snakes at
night to be “healed” if dream-cure failed
Statue of Asklepius (Aesculapius): note attributes of scepter w/ snake, Jesus face/beard
Patients bringing offering?/prayer to Asklepius in bearded-snake form
(probably at Epidaurus)
Asklepius seated on snake-throne at Epidaurus, receiving patients?
Asklepius as baby: (LR) Nurse, Asklepius, tripod on
pedestal (indicates father Apollo at Delphi), and mother Coronis holding laurel
Hephaestus thrown from Olympus at birth: Zeus and Hera on top, Hephaestus falling (clutching hammer),
nymph representing the island he landed on below
Birth of Erichthonius (1st Athenian): (LR)
Hephaestus (father) holding tongs, Gaea rising w/ crown & offering baby
Erichthonius to Athena, who has thrown her snake-aegis on her back
Hephaestus returning to Mt. Olympus: (LR) Dionysus holding wine, Hephaestus w/ club foot (& very drunk) on
donkey, nymph & satyr of Dionysus following in procession
Hephaestus again (drunk) on Donkey w/ tools, following
Dionysus (holding wine cup) on way back to Mt. Olympus
Hephaestus crafting Achilles’ second set of armor and giving it to
the hero’s mother Thetis
Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising from sea-shell)
Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising from sea-birth, drying hair)
Aphrodite (at) Cnidus: naked next to water jar
Venus de Milo: Most famous Aphrodite statue (probably
an example of Aphrodite Landolini)
(LR) Aphrodite, Eros/Cupid, Pan (looking
for some, being denied): probably relating to lost myth of Cupid’s mischief, getting Pan to desire/pursue Aphrodite
Judgment of Paris: (LR) Hera (holding cow, probably),
Athena (holding helmet and spear), Aphrodite (holding Eros/Cupid), Hermes (w/ special hat and staff) and Paris (seated, to judge)
Common Funeral Vase Decoration of Demeter (Ceres): holding grain, pouring libation onto altar
(LR) Demeter and Persephone: Ceres seated, holding grain, Proserpina holding torch
Persephone w/ Torch attribute
Hades Abducting Persephone: From the wall of a tomb next to that of Philip II of Macedon (father of
Alexander the Great), c.350 BC
Demeter in Mourning over loss of Persephone: from another wall of the tomb in slide 131
Hades abducting Persephone (note dropped torch on right, her attribute)
(LR) Hermes, Persephone, Hades: note
the abduction has been changed into a seduction/wedding (Proserpina’s bridal veil), and the torch in front of Hade’s chariot