Transcript Classical Mythology

Classical
Mythology
The House of Atreus
The House of Dardanus and
the House of Atreus.
Ioli Kaliopi Sifakaki,
Tantalus Dinner. London,
Royal College of Art,
Summer Graduate Show,
2009.
Model of
Temple of
Zeus,
Olympia,
~470-457
East Pediment, detail of Seer.
Temple of Zeus, Olympia, ca
470-457.
Adrastus and Thyestes at
Sicyon. South Italian redfigure calyx krater, by the
Darius Painter, ca 325.
A scene from Sophocles’
(lost) Thyestes at Sicyon.
Bottom: King Adrastus
(center) orders Thyestes to
yield baby Aegisthus for
exposure; Queen
Amphithea comforts
Pelopeia. Top: Apollo
confronts a Fury; Artemis
orders Pan to save the
baby; the hero Sicyon looks
on.
Clytemnestra. Sculpture by
Chryssa (1933-2013), ca 1980.
Megaron Musikis, Athens.
Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
killing Agamemnon. Attic red
figure kalyx krater by the
Dokimasia Painter, mid V.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
Orestes pursues Clytemnestra. Lucanian redfigure pot attributed to the Amykos Painter,
420-410. Paris, Louvre Museum.
Orestes kills Aegisthus. Athenian redfigure pelike by the Berlin Painter, late VI.
Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna.
Orestes being purified
by Apollo as
Clytemnestra tries to
awake the sleeping
Erinyes. South Italian
red-figure bell-krater,
380–370. Paris, Louvre.
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 458.
Agamemnon.
Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
killing Agamemnon. Attic red
figure kalyx krater by the
Dokimasia Painter, mid V.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
Scenes from Aeschylus’s
Agamemnon, dir by Niketi
Kontouri. Kozani, 2013.
Electra and Orestes at the Tomb of Agamemnon. Melian relief, 450s. Paris,
Louvre.
Possibly a scene from Aeschylus’s Libation Bearers.
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 458.
The Libation Bearers.
Orestes kills Aegisthus. Athenian redfigure pelike by the Berlin Painter, late VI.
Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum,
Vienna.
Orestes pursues Clytaemnestra. Lucanian redfigure pot attributed to the Amykos Painter,
420-410. Paris, Louvre Museum.
Aeschylus, The Oresteia,
458.
The Eumenides.
Orestes being purified
by Apollo as
Clytemnestra tries to
awake the sleeping
Erinyes. South Italian
red-figure bell-krater,
380–370. Paris, Louvre.
Still of E G Marshall, Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Edward Binns, Jack Klugman, Joseph Sweeney,
George Voskovec, and (back to camera) John Fiedler in 12 Angry Men, dir Sidney Lumet, 1957.
Kate Tempest: “I don’t want to be famous or anything like that.” Photograph: David
Levene/Guardian, 23 Oct 2014.