Mythology CLCV 115 Maps and Images

Artemis and Apollo killing Niobe’s children

Tiamat (shown as a snake here)

destroyed by Marduk

Zeus hurls a thunderbolt at

Typhoeus

(details below, same vase but

different lighting)

Atlas holding up the sky, liver-

devouring eagle, Prometheus

chained to a mountain

Athena (left). Prometheus

(seated) creates humans from

mud

Birth of Pandora, showing (left

to right) Zeus, Hermes,

Epimetheus, Pandora

Wedding of Hera and Zeus

Hand clasping signifies marriage

in Greek art (Hera associated

with marriage, always fully

dressed)

Apollo, raven, lyre, laurel wreath

(offering a libation or drink for

the gods)

Hermes with traveling hat

(petasos, hanging from his neck),

staff with entwined serpents,

winged sandals

Apollo and Hermes as a baby, in

his cradle (with his traveling

hat), and a stolen cow

Pan with characteristic goat

features (horns, hooves, legs,

tail)

Hephaestus (and Thetis), seated,

clothed, holding a hammer, and

armor he has made

Aphrodite rising from the sea

(with sea goddess, Eros/Cupid,

jewelry, billowing garment =

story of her birth)

Birth of Athena from head of

Zeus (Hephaestus helps)

Athena with helmet, spear, aegis

(goat skin), shield

Where is Delos?

Where is Delphi? (Shrine and oracle of Apollo)

Where is Mount Olympus?

Which part is Greece?

where is Mesopotamia?

Where is Athens?

Where is Cyprus?