Transcript Classical Mythology

Classical
Mythology
Perseus and the Argonauts
Boxers, judge, observer. Panathenaic amphora attributed to the
Cleophrades painter, early V. Paris, Louvre.
Cf Cleomedes of Astypalaes.
The Menelaion near Sparta.
Boar tusk helmet from Mycenae, XIV. Warrior
vase from Mycenae, XIII. Athens, National
Archaeological Museum.
Procession of chariots on a Late Geometric amphora (ca 720–700 BC). Paris, Louvre
Museum
The Lion Gate at Mycenae.
USD at the Tomb of Atreus, Mycenae. Photo by Nickie Luhmann.
Gilgamesh strangling a lion. Drawing of a
sculpture in Khorsabad sculpture.
Jason and Athena. Red-figured cup by
Douris, ca 480-470 BC. Rome, Vatican
Museum.
Perseus. Bronze by Benvenuto Cellini,
1545. Florence, Loggia dei Lanzi.
Calais, Zetes on the Argo, an unnamed
Argonaut boarding the penteconter.
Athenian red-figure volute krater by the
Talos Painter, ca 400. Ruvo, Museo
Jatta. (Cf Buxton 112 for the main
scene.)
The Argo. Scene from Pasolini’s Medea (1969)
Map showing the route taken by the Argo.
Jason and Athena. Red-figured cup by
Douris, ca 480-470 BC. Rome, Vatican
Museum.
Don Chaffey, Jason and the Argonauts (1963), special effects by Ray Harryhausen
Pasolini, Medea, 1969. (Start at
9:15)
Achilles Slaying Penthesileia: Exekias, ~530 (London,
British Museum); Berlin Painter, ~490 (New York,
Metropolitan Museum), Penthesileia Painter, ~460s
(Munich, Alte Pinakothek)
Pasolini, Medea, 1969. (Start at
1:00.)
Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Phèdre et Hippolyte, early XIX. Paris, musée du Louvre