LF310 -- Greek Mythology -- Fall 2001

Assignments for Thursday, September 20, 2001

Read the following:

• Classical Mythology, 6th edition:

  • Chapter 5: Poseidon, Sea Deities, Group Divinities, and Monsters, pp. 98-104.
  • Chapter 6: Athena, pp. 105-115.

• Companion to Classical Mythology, 6th edition. Companion website for our textbook. For further clarification of the chapter, go through the summaries on the site, look at the links, take the quiz. Do the same for Chapter 6.

Poseidon:

• East Parthenon Frieze, Poseidon, Apollo, and Artemis. Acropolis Museum, Athens.
• Poseidon (or Zeus) of Artemision (460 BCE). Bronze, 2.90 m. high. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
• Oltos, Poseidon (520 BC).
• Aegisthus Painter. Nike pours an offering to Poseidon (5th c. BCE).
• Sophilos. Posdeidon and Amphitrite, the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis (580 BCE).

Neptune:

• Fountain of Neptune, Rome.
• Fountain of Neptune, closeup.

Triton:

• Roman Mosaic, Triton.Vatican Museum.

Athena:

• Pediment of the Ancient Temple. Athena fighting a Giant (520 BCE). Acropolis Museum, Athens.
• Relief of the Mourning Athena (460 BCE). Acropolis Museum, Athens.
• Painter C, Birth of Athena (ca. 570 BCE)
• Phrynos Painter, Birth of Athena (ca. 560-550 BCE)
• Athena. Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi (ca. 525 BCE)
• Bronze statuette of Athena holding an owl (c. 450 BCE).
• Athena Promachos. Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora (340-339 BCE). Harvard University Art Museums (Perseus)
• Athena Promachos. Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora (ca. 490 BCE). J. Paul Getty Museum (Perseus)
• Athena Promachos. Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora (ca. 550-500 BCE). Metropolitan Museum (Perseus)

Architecture:

• Acropolis, Athens.
• Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens. View through the columns of the Propylon. (Perseus)
• Southwest View of the Erectheion (to Erechtheus-Poseidon) , with its caryatids, Acropolis, Athens.
• Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion, Greece.