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 | Temple Classics | Temple University | Perseus
