Chapter 03 Web Resources

Links

Apollodorus’ Library

(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/apollod.summ.html#part1)

Read section 1 of Frazier’s Summary of Apollodorus handbook of mythology dealing with Jason and the Argonauts. At any point you can click on the reference number in the text to take you to the fuller treatment in Apollodorus himself.

Gaia

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia#/media/File:Feuerbach_Gaea.jpg)

Here we see Gaia painted by Anselm Feuerbach (1875).

Eros

(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifactSearch?q=Eros&artifact=yes&artifactType=Vase)

Here you will find a nice selection of vases from Perseus in which the god Eros figures. Read the vase descriptions and click on the images of those which interest you. (Note: Not all of the images may be available to you.)

Birth of Venus

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/

La_nascita_di_Venere_%28Botticelli%29.jpg)

Botticelli’s famous Birth of Venus (Wikipedia).

Eos/Vases

(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifactBrowser?object=Vase&field=Keyword&keyclass=Divinities&keyword=Eos)

Here you will find a nice selection of vases from Perseus in which the goddess Eos figures. Read the vase descriptions and click on the images of those which interest you. (Note: Not all of the images may be available to you.)

Selene

(http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Selene.html)

Selene goddess of the moon, Athenian red-figure kylix 5th century B.C.

Oceanus

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus#/media/File:Oceanus_at_Trevi.JPG)

A sculpture of the god Oceanus from the Trevi fountain.

Saturn Devouring His Son

(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/goya/)

Scroll down and click on Goya’s haunting masterpiece of Saturn/Cronus eating his children. It is a remarkable rendering of mindless, brute force savagely safeguarding itself against a loss of control.

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