LF310 -- Greek Mythology -- Fall 2001

Assignments for Thursday, September 27, 2001

Read the following:

• Classical Mythology, 6th edition:

  • Chapter 9: Apollo, pp. 163-188.
  • Chapter 10: Hermes, pp. 189-203.

• 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 10.

Apollo:

• Apollo Belvedere (c. 130-140 CE). Pio-Clementine Museum, the Vatican. Marble, Roman copy of a of a Greek bronze (Leochares? c. 330-320 BCE). According to Pausanias, its original home was the Agora of Athens.
• Apollo Sauroktonos (lizard-killer). Roman copy of an original attributed to Praxiteles, c. 350 BCE. Louvre. The lizard may allude to the contest between Apollo and the Python.
• Apollo, called the "Apollo of Piombino". Greece, 2nd half of the 5th century BCE? 1st c. BCE? Louvre.
• Berlin Painter. Apollo (490 BCE).
• Berlin Painter. Apollo on a winged tripod (c. 490 BCE). Red-figure hydria. Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican.
• Apollo Musagetes (leader of the Muses). Rome, 2nd c. CE. Pio-Clementine Museum, the Vatican.

Muses

• Calliope . Rome, 2nd c. CE. Pio-Clementine Museum, the Vatican.
• Thalia. Rome, 2nd c. CE. Pio-Clementine Museum, the Vatican.

Marsyas

• Praxiteles. Musical contest of Apollo and Marsyas . Praxiteles (ca. 320 BCE)
• Marsyas. Roman early Imperial copy of Greek original. Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican.
• The torture of Marsyas. Marble, end of the 3rd century BCE. Louvre.

Apollo, Artemis, and the Children of Niobe

• Niobid Painter. Death of the Niobids (460-450 BCE). Attic red-figured kalyx krater. Louvre.
• Niobids. Roman copy of a Hellenistic sarcophagus relief.

Hermes

• Phiale Painter. Hermes (440 BCE).
• Hermes bearing a ram (5th c. BCE).
• Hermes. Roman copy, 2nd c. of a Greek original, 5th c. BCE. Pio-Clementine Museum, the Vatican.
• "Hermès à la sandale" Roman copy of a Greek original by Lysippos (ca. 320 BCE). Louvre.

Hermes and the Cattle of Apollo

• Theseus Painter. Hermes and the Cattle of Apollo (500 BCE).

Hermes Argeiphontes (slayer of Argos)

• Eucharides Painter. Death of Argos (c. 480 BCE).

Hermes Psychopompos (conductor of souls to Hades)

• Euphronios. Hypnos, Thanatos, and Hermes (c. 510 BCE). (to come)
• Lykaon Painter. Hermes, Odysseus, and Elpenor in Hades (c. 440 BCE). (to come)

Archaeological Sites:

Delphi

• Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
• Temple of Apollo and the view from Mt. Parnassos.
• Another view of the Temple of Apollo.
• Other ruins at Delphi.
• Athenian Treasury at Delphi.
• Delphi, Tholos in the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia Perseus Project
• If you are interested, there are many more images of the various ruins at the Perseus Project, Delphi exhibit.