Athens as/and Mythography
Places in Athens
Tour
Athens, walking from the upper left, outside the city walls, along the
Panthenaic way, to the Acropolis in the lower middle Then
walk
through the Acropolis itself, circling the Parthenon (links
under development.
Description of Parthenon by Pausanias
Metope
overview. For this link, and the following ones, consider the
nature and function of the myths on the Parthenon
Diagram of whole frieze
Read a
controversial
new interpretation of the myths on the frieze
Athena' contest with Poseidon on west pediment
Birth of Athena on east pediment
Peplos, Athena and Hephaestus on east frieze
Assembly of gods on east frieze
Athena, reconstructed in a drawing
Early kings in vase paintings
Birth of Erichthonius
Athena
and Erichthonius
Erechtheus
Kekrops
Kekrops
on a coin
Theseus in Sculpture
Theseus
at Delphi
Sosippos
honoring Theseus
Battle
of Lapiths and Centaurs at Olympia
Texts
- Explore the links for
Procne
at Perseus. Pay special attention, after Apollodorus, to the passages in
Aristophanes and Euripides, which show, once again, how the same people
could have found both tragic and comic possiblities in the same myth. Is
there anything strange about the Euripides passage?
Myth Page |
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