Myths of Creation: Origins Classical Mythology Myths of Creation: Origins
Disney.wikia.com Hercules 1997; click on the image to see the scene www.genevievevalentine.com: Immortals 2011
Marduk fightin Tiamat. Impression of a Babylonian cylinder seal. Julie Newdoll, The Second World was Blue. From a series based on Navajo sand painting. https://maggiemcneill.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/marduk-vs-tiamat.jpg Wikipedia http://brushwithscience.com/Summer2006/DineOrigins.html The brothers Odin, Vili, and Vé attack Ymir in an illustration of the Prose Edda by Lorenz Frølich (1820-1908).
Genealogical chart from Buxton. Cf http://www.theoi.com/TreeHesiod.html
The Tellus Panel from the Ara Pacis. Rome, 9 BCE. Roman Tellus=Greek Gaea; also IDed as Peace, Venus Genetrix. The Tellus Panel from the Ara Pacis. Rome, 9 BCE.
Davis (http://archiv. ub. uni-heidelberg Davis (http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/894/1/Davis_Fontes47.pdf): Vasari influenced by Michelangelo’s Noah and His Three Sons in Sistine Chapel. Alberti calls the figs a chorus of the ten attributes attributed to God (Corona, Sapientia, Prudentia, Clementia or Bontà, Gratia or Severità, Hornamento, Triompho, Confessione di Lode, Fondamento, and Regno). Daedalus is lower left; a god above breaths life into a statue; women are allegories Castrazione del Cielo fatta da Saturno. Fresco by Giorgio Vasari, 1555. Sala degli Elementi, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
The Birth of Venus. Sandro Botticelli. 1483-1485. Florence, Uffizi. Aphrodite Rising. Detail of the Ludovisi Throne, ca. 460 BC. Rome, National Museum. The Birth of Venus. Sandro Botticelli. 1483-1485. Florence, Uffizi. Wikipedia
Saturn Devouring His Son. Francisco Goya. 1819-1823. Madrid, Prado. Wikipedia Metropolitan Museum Saturn Devouring His Son. Francisco Goya. 1819-1823. Madrid, Prado. Rhea Gives Cronus a Stone Disguised as the Infant Zeus. Athenian red-figure pelike, attributed to the Nausicaä Painter, 450s. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,.
The Olympians on the Parthenon Eastern Frieze, later 440s. http://repository.parthenonfrieze.gr/frieze/ Hermes, Dionysus, Demeter, Ares, Nike (or Iris), Hera, Zeus, Athena, Hephaestus, Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis and Aphrodite, Eros Hermes, Dionysus, Demeter, Ares, Nike (or Iris), Hera, Zeus, Athena, Hephaestus, Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Eros
Elpenor, Odysseus, and Hermes in Hades Elpenor, Odysseus, and Hermes in Hades. Attic red-figure pilike by the Lykaon Painter, ca 440. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/jar-pelike-with-odysseus-and-elpenor-in-the-underworld-153840 Elpenor fell from Circe’s roof; the two rams are the sacrifice to revivify the dead
Gigantomachy on an Attic red-figure pelike attributed to the Pronomos Painter, ca 400. National Museum, Athens http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/ZeusTyphoeus.html Ares spears a giant, the Dioscuri flank him, one mounted. Zeus and Typhoeus. Stamp based on a Black-figure hydria in Munich, ca 550 BC
Pergamum Altar, II. Pergamonmuseum, Berlin. wikipedia
The cosmography of Homer and Hesiod. http://pstevensfhs.wikispaces.com/Tartarus wikipedia