LF310 -- Greek Mythology

Assignments for Friday, I July 2005

Portraits of the Olympians

Ares. Roman copy of a Hellenistic original. Roma, Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Altemps. Ludovisi collection.

Photograph copyright 1999 by Kalervo Koskimies.

 

 

Read the following:

  • Hesiod, Theogony, pp. 85-90.
  • Apollodorus, Library, pp. 29-34; 38-40
  • Carpenter, Art and Myth,
    • Chap. 3: Portraits of the Gods
    • Chap 4: Ascendancy of the Olympians
    • Look at all the plates for chaps. 3 and 4