ancient myth exam 2

image identification

Gilgamesh, Mesopotamian (Assyrian art)

Bull man (Enkidu) fights lion (symbol of Gilgamesh), Mesopotamian (Akkadian art)

clay mask of Humbaba, Babylonian/Mesopotamian

Apollo Belvedere, Roman copy of Greek god

Apollo Python Slayer, Greek

Apollo killing Python, Greek

Bellerophon riding Pegasus, Greek

Perseus kills Medusa (other figure is Athena who helped Perseus), Greek

Perseus rescues Andromeda, Roman

Herakles, Greek

Herakles menaces Eurystheus with the
Erymanthian Boar, Greek

Herakles and Omphale, Roman

Oedipus answering the sphinx’s riddles, Greek

Antigone illegally burying Polynices, Greek myth but modern watercolor

“the judgement of paris” athena, hera, aphrodite vie for Paris’s approval that they are the most beautiful, Greek

Apollo with his bow, Greek

Achilles playing a board game with Ajax, Greek

bronze chariot with image of Achilles battling, Greek

Priam approaches Achilles who lounges above Hector’s dead/mutilated body, Greek

Achilles slaughtering prisoners (at Patrocleus’ funeral), Greek (etruscan art)

Grendel, Anglo-Saxon

Beowulf and Grendel’s Mother, Anglo-Saxon

Dragon that Beowulf fights, Anglo-Saxon (drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien aka author of The Hobbit)

Sun Wukong aka Monkey King, Chinese

Songoku, Japansese version of Sun Wukong

Guanyin, Chinese

Erlang with his demon helpers hunting Sun Wukong, Chinese

Sun Wukong blows on his hairs and multiplies himself, Chinese

Aeneas carrying his father on his back away from Troy, Greek

coin of Cleopatra, Roman/Egyptian

Octavian takes the name Augustus and becomes the first emperor of Rome, Roman

Coins featuring Augustus and Venus (top) and the deified Julius Caesar as a star, Roman

Aeneas escaped Troy with his family, Roman

Aeneas leaving Carthage, Roman

Mercury appears to Aeneas in a dream, Roman