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Star Wars: The Magic of Myth Helpful Animals and Monsters

Helpful Animals and Monsters The Enchanted Forest and Helpful Animals Hero Deeds and Dragon Slayers Into the Belly of the Beast Mystical Marriage Monster Combat

Centaur: Human and Horse CheironNessus

Cheiron: Teacher and Physician Asklepios Taught by Cheiron. A mural at the Dittrick Medical History Center at Case Western Reserve University. Here Asklepios is being taught the art of healing by Cheiron, the greatest of centaurs. Cheiron as Tutor of Achilles Pompeian fresco

Lapiths and Centaurs Pediment Sculpture from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia A Lapith struggles with a Centaur (Parthenon metope, now in the British Museum)

Nessus Nessus and Deineira Guido Reni, 1621 Heracles and Nessus

The Zoology of Star Wars

Domesticated Pack Animals Jerbas: shaggy domesticated pack animal. A jerba has a piglike snout, elephantine body and tail, and spindly legs with grey, leathery hide

More Pack Animals Tauntaun: readily-domesticated herd-living herbivores which roam the icy wastes of the sixth planet in the Hoth system Bantha of Tatooine

Jawas: Scavengers

Tusken Raiders or Sand People Nomadic people with no loyalties

Non-Human Helpers in Star Wars Intelligence Loyalty

Wookies Tender but violent Chewbacca

Gungans Amphibous Creatures Advanced, techonological society Poor table manners Boss Nass Jar Jar Binks

Ewoks Stone Age Civilization Primitive Technology (Gliders) Very intelligent

Monsters in Star Wars Cannibalism Cruelty Wampa Jabba the Hutt

The Rancor

Sarlaac

Slaying Monsters

Chimera

Bellerophon Corinth, Greece, AR 1/2 stater. c BC, Bellerophon riding on Pegasus, with Chimera below. Bellerophon receiving the Fatal letter

Bellerophon and the Chimera Detail from an Athenian black-figure clay vase, about 550 BC. Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum 85.AE.121 © J. Paul Getty Museum

Theseus and the Minotaur

The Origin of the Minotaur

Pasiphae and the Bull Roman relief sculpture: Pasiphae, Daedalus, and the Bull

Theseus and the Minotaur

Theseus slaying the Minotaur, with Ariadne behind him; from the story of Aeneas Title of Work: Les Livres des France; 15th century HOW IS THIS MINOTAUR DIFFERENT?

Freeing the Minotaur’s Victims

Perseus and Medusa Perseus fleeing pursuing the Gorgons. Red-figured Greek amphora, 490 BC Munich

Medusa Caravaggio after 1590; Oil on canvas mounted on wood; Uffizi Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( ) Head of Medusa, 1630 Capitoline Museum, Rome

Detail from an Athenian red-figure clay vase, about 450 BC. New York, Metropolitan Museum Metropolitan Museum, New York

Perseus, attended by Athene, slaying the Gorgon Medusa Metope. Selinus (Selinunte), ca BC,

Benevuto Cellini ( ) Perseus Florence

neo-classical statue by Canova inspired by Apollo Belvedere. early 19th century. Vatican Museum, Rome.

Monsters in the Arena in Clones

The Labyrinth as Katabasis = Descent into the Underworld The Labyrinth Descent into the Underworld

The Cyclops’ Cave as Katabasis

Odsysseus’ Descent into the Underworld Odysseus and Tiresias Odysseus and Elpenor Odysseus also meets Agamamnon and Achilles See Odyssey XI

Other Descents: Heracles and Cerberus Museum Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France Catalogue Number: Louvre E701 Beazley Archive Number: N/A Ware: Caeretan Black Figure Shape: Hydria Painter: -- Date: ca 530 BC Period: Archaic

Cerberus

Hercules seizing Cerberus | Hercules approaches Cerberus as Athena looks on. Note the doric column and frieze used to indicate the palace of Hades. Andocides Painter (Paris, Louvre )

... And my Conductor, with his spans extended, Took of the earth, and with his fists well filled, He threw it into those rapacious gullets (Inferno VI 25-37) Cerberus in Dante’s Inferno Etching by Gustave Doré ( )

Other Descents: Theseus Heracles Rescuing Theseus From the Chair of Forgetfulness

Aeneas’ Katabasis Sibyl leading Aeneas through the Underworld Jan Breughel II ( ) Brussels, Royal Museum of Ancient Art of Belgium

Orpheus and Eurydice Relief Sculpture, c. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (From L to R: Hermes, Eurydice, Orpheus)

Orpheus Leading EurydiceOrpheus Leading Eurydice. Camille Corot, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Underworld Scenes in Star Wars ?

In the Wampa’s Cave

In the Death Star Garbage Dump The Dianogas (fleshy tentacled creatures which feed on waste materials

In The Rancor’s Cave