LF310 -- Greek Mythology -- Fall 2001

Assignments for Thursday, October 4, 2001

Read the following:

• Classical Mythology, 6th edition:

  • Chapter 11, "Dionysus, Pan, Echo, and Narcissus, pp. 204-232.
  • Chapter 12, "Demeter and the Eleusinian Mysteries," pp. 233-249

• Phiale Painter. Hermes presents the Infant Dionysus to Papposilenus. White-ground calyx-krater. 440-430 BCE. Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican.
• Exekias. Dionysus on a ship. (540 BCE). Museum Antikes Kleinkunst, Munich.
• Dionysus, Athena, and Hermes. Attic black-figure amphora (ca. 525-500 BCE). University of Pennsylvania Museum. (Perseus)
• Dionysus and Ariadne. Attic black-figure neck amphora (ca. 510-500 BCE). University of Mississippi Museum. (Perseus)
• Dionysus in donkey cart. Attick black-figureskyphos (ca. 505-500 BCE). University pf Mississippi Museum. (Perseus)
• Dionysus and Maenad. Attributed to the Altamura Painter (ca. 475-450 BCE). University of Pennsylvania Museum (Perseus)
• Silenus with the infant Dionysus. Roman copy of a Greek original (Lysippos?), ca. 310-300 BCE.
• Hermes carrying the infant Dionysus. Praxiteles. Olympia, temple of Hera (ca. 330-320 BCE). (Australian National University)

Satyr:

• Satyr, Rome.

• Statue of Ariadne sleeping. Vatican Sculpture Gallery.

Demeter and Eleusinian Deities:

• Relief from Eleusis (440-430 BCE). National Archaeological Museum at Athens. Scroll down the page until you find it. Read the description and click on the picture to enlarge it.
• Triptolemos with Persephone and Demeter. Attic Black-figure amphora, 550-530 BCE. Rhode Island School of Design, Perseus Project.
• Demeter and Kore. Archaic.
• Persephone, Triptolemus, and Demeter. Votive relief from Eleusis. 4th century BCE.