Assignments for Wednesday, 6 July 2005

Artemis, Apollo, Hermes

Apollo Belvedere. 2nd c. BCE Roman marble copy of a 4th c. BCE Greek bronze. Vatican Museum.

Photo credit: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Read the following:

Apollo and Artemis:

• Homeric Hymns
  • 3: Apollo
  • 21: Apollo
  • 27: Artemis
  • 9: Artemis
• Apollodorus, Library, pp. 31-32

Hermes:

• Homeric Hymns
  • 4: Hermes: note that this has been added
  • 18: Hermes

Apollo, Artemis, Hermes:

• Go back through Carpenter, Art and Myth,
  • Chapters 3 and 4, including plates
  • Find all references to the three gods in the text and in the plates