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Polis and Hero: Theseus
Classical Mythology Polis and Hero: Theseus
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Image: wikipedia H W Parke and D E W Wormell, The Delphic Oracle (Oxford: OUP, 1956) no. 476. Aegeus, King of Athens, consulting the Delphic Oracle. Tondo of a cup attributed to the Kodrus Painter, ca Berlin, Antikensammlung.
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The Adventures of Theseus
Theseus’s rock at Troezen.
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Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais.
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wikipedia Ariadne and Dionysus. Derveni krater, IV. Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum.
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Geranos-dance ("crane dance"). Relief pithos from Tinos, VII.
François vase, details of Theseus’s Cretan adventure. Athenian volute krater by Cleitias and Ergotimus ca Florence, Museo archeologico.
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Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais.
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Knossos, plan and aerial view.
Knossos, plan and aerial view. Sir Arthur Evans. Portrait by Sir William Richmond, before Oxford, Ashmolean Museum.
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wikipedia Bull-leaping fresco from palace of Knossos, XVII. Herakleion, Archaeological Museum.
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Cercyon The Sow of Crommyon Procrustes Sinis Sciron Bull of Marathon The Deeds of Theseus. Athenian red-figured cup by the Kodros Painter, 430s. London, British Museum.
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Sinis The Sow of Crommyon, Phaea Sciron Cercyon
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Procrustes Bull of Marathon
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Theseus attacking an Amazon
Theseus attacking an Amazon. Athenian red-figured dinos from the Group of Polygnotus, 440s.
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Model of Temple of Zeus, Olympia, 470-457
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Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs. Western pediment of the Temple of Zeus, 460s
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DomainepeintureDénominationtableauAuteur/exécutantGUERIN Pierre Narcisse BaronTitrePHEDRE ET HIPPOLYTEPériode création/exécution1er quart 19e siècleLieu de conservationParis ; musée du Louvre département des PeinturesNuméro d'inventaireRF Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Phèdre et Hippolyte, early XIX. Paris, musée du Louvre
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Helen Mirren as Phèdre and Dominic Cooper as Hippolyte in Jean Racine’s Phèdre (1677), translated by Ted Hughes, at the National Theater, London, June 2009.
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Above, an assembly of gods: Pan, Apollo, Athena, Aphrodite and Poseidon. Below, an old retainer watches as a Fury and a bull terrify Hippolytus' team so that he falls to his death. The scene was perhaps inspired by Euripides' Hippolytus. Apulian pottery red-figured volute-krater by the Darius Painter, ca London, British Museum.
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Wikipedia Beazley archive The Athenian Treasury at Delphi, early V. Metopes 1-8 show the deeds of Theseus; 9-14 an Amazonomachy, and the deeds of Heracles.
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