Class myth final

who is this

Heracles and Cerberus (one of the 12 labors)

who wrote this

Opening lines to Vergil’s Aenied, a poem about Aeneas.

who is this

Thetis dipping Achilles into the River Styx (to make him immortal) She held him by his tendon which never touched the water making it his weak spot.

who is this

baby Heracles strangling snakes sent by Hera to kill him (shows opposition from the beginning)

who is this

Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus the Cyclops. Odysseus wanted to leave the cave of Tiberius, so him and his men tied themselves to sheep underbelly to escape.

who is this

Athena helping Heracles hold up with world (usually Atlas’s job)

who are these people

Athena and Heracles

what is this

Odysseus and the sirens (from the Odyssey)

what is happening here

blinding Polyphemus (cyclops)

what is this

the abduction of Europa (by Zeus) (Their son was Minos)

who wrote this

Ovid’s metamorphisis

what and where is this

palace of Minos at Knossos

who is in the photo and why

Athena, Cadmus, Harmonia, Ares. Cadmus went looking for his sister Europa so he asks the Delphic Oracle for help. It says follow the cow until it lays down and then get it water, then Cadmus gets water but a serpent is in the way (this serpent belongs to Ares), he kills the serpent and Ares is mad so Cadmus becomes Ares “slave” for a while. Since Cadmus does such a good job, Ares offers his daughter Harmonia to marry Cadmus

who was Cadmus’s main succesor

Oedipus

who is this and why is he always pictured with a sphinx

Oedipus, his father receives a prophecy that his son (Oedipus) will kill him. Oedipus is then exposed to a mountaintop as a child but then is rescued to Corinth. Later, he visits Delphic Oracle and says do not go home or he will kill his father and marry mother (he thinks his home is Corinth so he goes to Thebes instead - his real home). In Thebes, he gets into a fight with a man and kills him (his father- oops) Then he solves the riddle of the sphinx and gets to marry the queen (aka his mother- ew). When he finds this out, he blinds himself and his wife + mom commits suicide.

Polynices and Eteocles

sons of Oedpus and his mom. Since both Oedipus and his mom are unable to rule the throne, both the sons trade years on ruling - obviously this does not work out and they go to war with each other and kill each other.

what is happening here

Polynices and Eteocles at war with each other.

what does Creon decide

He deems Polynices as a traitor and does not burry him, and Eteocles to be treated as a hero.

who is this

Antigone (sister to Polynices and Eteocles) burrying Polynices because that is how to Greeks honor death. She will face the death penalty tho.

who wrote this

Antigone

who is this and why are they here

Tantalus, he feeds his son Pelops to the gods. The gods restore him and goes to Greece to court Hippodemia near Olympia (he cheated in the chariot race against King Oenomaius by waxing up the wheels). He is given an ivory shoulder because Demeter accidentally ate her “serving” of him.

what is this

this is the chariot race with Pelops and Kind Oenomaius for the hand in marrage of Hippodamia (if Pelops loses, he dies). Pelops asks Myrtilis to help him cheat and he does. He wins. This is shown at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.

who are the two in this image

Pelops and Hippodamia

what happens here

Pelops kills Myrtilis, but Myrtilis buts a curse on Pelops’s decendants as he dies

what is this

sacrifice of Iphigenia by Agamemnon

what is this

sacrifice of Iphigenia by Agamemnon

what is this

murder of Agamemnon by Clytamestra (his wife) and Aegisthus (his cousin and her lover)

who is this

Clytamenstra killing Cassanda (*note the double-sided ax)

what is this

revenge agaisnt Clystamentra and Aegisthus by C’s son Orestes

what is this

Orestes wants to kill his mother Clytamestra because she killed his father Agamemnon.

what is this

Orestes goes to Delphi to seen purification for killing his mother. They send him to Athens to face trial by jury.

who is in this

Leda and the swan (zeus). She gives birth to Helen and Polyduces (Pollux) and other twins Clytemestra and Castor (whos dad is King Tyndareus).

what is this

birth of helen

who are these two

Castor and Pollux

what is this

temple of Castor and Pollux that appeared in battle of Lake Regillus and led Romans in victory over the Latins.

who is this

Thetis (goddess) and Peleus (mortal)

what is this

wedding of Thetis and Peleus (Eris - Strife- is not invited). She tosses a golden apple that is addressed to “the fairest’

what is this

judgment of Paris. Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite all thought the golden apple was for them, so instead of Zeus deciding, he told Paris to. Athena offers victory in war, Hera offers Kinship, and Aphrodite offers marriage to the most beautiful women in the world.

what is happening here

Paris chose Aphrodites offer, so she sets him up with Helen. In this image, Paris is taking Helen from her husband, the King of Sparta

King of Sparta

Menelaus (Agamamnon’s brother) They get all the great Greek warlords together to get Helen back - starting the Trojan war

who is this

Achilles battling the Amazon Queen (pentheselaia)

who is this

Aphrodite saving her son Aeneas from Diomedes. Diomedes wounds her so later in revenge, her causes his wife to cheat on him

what is this

Achilles did not want to get involved because he hates Agamemnon, but his good friend Partroklos is killed by Hektor so Achilles enters the fight

What is this

Hephaetus crafting new armor for Achilles

what is this

Achilles dragging the body of Hektor after killing him

what is this

priam pleads achilles for the return of Hektor

what is this

Achilles with Hektors body, denying him a burial

what is this

priam pleads with achilles for Hektor’s body. from a cheifman’s grace in hoby denmark. Achilles rage finally goes away

what is this

Paris shoots Achilles in his one weak spot and dies.

what is this

the trojan horse: Odysseus hides soldiers in a horse that they leave as an offering

what is this

Laokoon and his sons try to disuade the trojans from bringing the horse inside. Athena gets mad and sends serpents to kill all

what is this

Aeneas carring Anchises out of the burning city

what is this

Aeneas carring Anchises out of the burning city

who is this

Diomedes (his wife cheated because of Aphrodite)