Classical Mythology

Myth and Philosophy

Castrazione del Cielo fatta da Saturno. Fresco by Giorgio Vasari, 1555. Sala degli Elementi, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

Channel of the Ilissus River, Athens, the setting of Plato’s Phaedrus.Silver didrachmas from Metapontum, late V.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Mural by Professor Meyer’s Ancient Philosophy Class

The Death of Socrates. Jacques-Louis David, 1787. New York, Metropolitan Museum.

The Poros Building, possibly the State Prison, in the Athenian Agora. View from the north.

Symposium scene: banqueters playing kottabos, a girl plays the aulos. Attic red-figure bell-krater by the Nicias Painter, ca 420. Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional.

Detail of a Fresco from the North wall of the Tomb of the Diver in Paestum, Italy, early V.

“Origin of Love.” John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, dir John Cameron Mitchell, 2001, based on the 1998 musical by Mitchell and Stephen Trask.

The Symposium: Do You Know What Love Is? dir Michael Wurth, 2003.