Greek mythology pictures

Zeus

• 470 BCE

• appears to be younger (no beard)

• in combat

Zeus

• sitting on throne; establishing power

• holding goddess Nike (victory), which may symbolize him after winning war

• older because of beard

Zeus defeating Typhoeus

• 540 BCE

Zeus vs a Titan

• 600 BCE

Poseidon, Athena, Pandora, Ares, Hermes (left to right)

Zeus, Hermes, Epimetheus, Pandora, Eros above

Prometheus

• C. 560 (archaic period) 

• Prometheus on right, Eagle pecking chest 

• Atlas on left, holding the sky 

• Both punished by Zeus

• Snake symbolizes Zeus watching them 

• Possibly on scale 

worshippers offer robe to Athena

• seated next to Hephestus

Hera (left) with an attendant (far left), Zeus (right)

Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis (left to right; Aphrodite would be on far right)

Hermes, Dionysus, Demeter, Ares (left to right)

• Persephone rising with hermes, Hecate, Demeter. 

• Persephone rising from the underworld 

• Persephone has crown- might already be queen of underworld 

• Persephone, Triptolemos, Demeter. 

• Votive Relief. Eleusis. 

Persephone and Hades

• In the underworld 

• Sitting in their kingdom of sorts

• 4th century BCE

• Hades looks like Zeus (Zeus of the underworld)

• Persephone is holding 4 sided torch (also could be demeter or hekate)

Hades was associated with caves – including one at Eleusis - but there are no temples or festivals in his honor.

Hermes

• Wearing traveling hat 

• He guides spirits to the underworld 

• Person on the right is a ghost (gravestone shown behind him) 

The Underworld was often imagined as divided from the lands of the living by rivers

• Charon, the boatman, was thought to escort psychai across them and into Hades

• left) and 4.4 (right) Charon (left) waits as Hermes (right) leads the psychē of a deceased person to his boat.

funerary rituals

• Women prepared the body for burial and performed formal lamentation

• Burials were accompanied by mourning songs and a feast

• These rituals

  • helped the psychē reach the Underworld

  • helped the community to transition;

  • sometimes involved conspicuous displays of wealth