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Classical MythologyMyths of Creation: Origins

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Marduk fightin Tiamat. Impression of a Babylonian cylinder seal.

The brothers Odin, Vili, and Vé attack Ymir in an illustration of the Prose Edda by Lorenz Frølich (1820-1908).

Julie Newdoll, The Second World was Blue. From a series based on Navajo sand painting.

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Genealogical chart from Buxton.Cf http://www.theoi.com/TreeHesiod.html

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The Tellus Panel from the Ara Pacis. Rome, 9 BCE.

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Castrazione del Cielo fatta da Saturno. Fresco by Giorgio Vasari, 1555. Sala degli Elementi, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

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The Birth of Venus. Sandro Botticelli. 1483-1485. Florence, Uffizi.

Aphrodite Rising. Detail of the Ludovisi Throne, ca. 460 BC. Rome, National Museum.

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Saturn Devouring His Son. Francisco Goya. 1819-1823. Madrid, Prado.

Rhea Gives Cronus a Stone Disguised as the Infant Zeus. Athenian red-figure pelike, attributed to the Nausicaä Painter, 450s. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,.

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The Olympians on the Parthenon Eastern Frieze, later 440s.

Hermes, Dionysus, Demeter, Ares, Nike (or Iris), Hera, Zeus, Athena, Hephaestus, Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Eros

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Elpenor, Odysseus, and Hermes in Hades. Attic red-figure pilike by the Lykaon Painter, ca 440. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.

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Zeus and Typhoeus. Stamp based on a Black-figure hydria in Munich, ca 550 BC

Gigantomachy on an Attic red-figure pelike attributed to the Pronomos Painter, ca 400. National Museum, Athens

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Pergamum Altar, II. Pergamonmuseum, Berlin.

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The cosmography of Homer and Hesiod.