Classic Greek Artemis Portmia Theron: Wings, Protector/ Controller of flanking Wild Beasts

Artemis/Diana the Hunter: holding

torches, chasing deer w/ dog

Artemis (detail of slide 106): holding torch and bow, watching

Actaeon metamorphosize into deer and get eaten by dogs

Protector Artemis: wings, bow & arrow, petting/protecting

baby animal

Romans praying/burning incense to Artemis/Diana before hunting boar

Artemis punishing Actaeon

Artemis Punishing Actaeon (see slide 102 above): notice figure on far left, supposed to represent rabies/madness of the dogs

Family bringing young girl to dedicate as a “bear” to Artemis at Brauron (note

sacrificial ox, and tools of sacrifice hidden in box on head)

Statue of a “bear” at Brauron, carrying a rabbit-sacrifice to Artemis

Fragment showing bear(?)-headed priestess of Artemis at Brauron

Artemis at Ephesus (Asia Minor): Many

breasts/eggs/testicle necklace= fertility goddess

Tholos at Epidaurus Complex (honoring Asklepius the healer): round

building w/ maze in basement where patients locked-up w/ snakes at

night to be “healed” if dream-cure failed

Statue of Asklepius (Aesculapius): note attributes of scepter w/ snake, Jesus face/beard

Patients bringing offering?/prayer to Asklepius in bearded-snake form

(probably at Epidaurus)

Asklepius seated on snake-throne at Epidaurus, receiving patients?

Asklepius as baby: (LR) Nurse, Asklepius, tripod on

pedestal (indicates father Apollo at Delphi), and mother Coronis holding laurel

Hephaestus thrown from Olympus at birth: Zeus and Hera on top, Hephaestus falling (clutching hammer),

nymph representing the island he landed on below

Birth of Erichthonius (1st Athenian): (LR)

Hephaestus (father) holding tongs, Gaea rising w/ crown & offering baby

Erichthonius to Athena, who has thrown her snake-aegis on her back

Hephaestus returning to Mt. Olympus: (LR) Dionysus holding wine, Hephaestus w/ club foot (& very drunk) on

donkey, nymph & satyr of Dionysus following in procession

Hephaestus again (drunk) on Donkey w/ tools, following

Dionysus (holding wine cup) on way back to Mt. Olympus

Hephaestus crafting Achilles’ second set of armor and giving it to

the hero’s mother Thetis

Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising from sea-shell)

Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising from sea-birth, drying hair)

Aphrodite (at) Cnidus: naked next to water jar

Venus de Milo: Most famous Aphrodite statue (probably

an example of Aphrodite Landolini)

(LR) Aphrodite, Eros/Cupid, Pan (looking

for some, being denied): probably relating to lost myth of Cupid’s mischief, getting Pan to desire/pursue Aphrodite

Judgment of Paris: (LR) Hera (holding cow, probably),

Athena (holding helmet and spear), Aphrodite (holding Eros/Cupid), Hermes (w/ special hat and staff) and Paris (seated, to judge)

Common Funeral Vase Decoration of Demeter (Ceres): holding grain, pouring libation onto altar

(LR) Demeter and Persephone: Ceres seated, holding grain, Proserpina holding torch

Persephone w/ Torch attribute

Hades Abducting Persephone: From the wall of a tomb next to that of Philip II of Macedon (father of

Alexander the Great), c.350 BC

Demeter in Mourning over loss of Persephone: from another wall of the tomb in slide 131

Hades abducting Persephone (note dropped torch on right, her attribute)

(LR) Hermes, Persephone, Hades: note

the abduction has been changed into a seduction/wedding (Proserpina’s bridal veil), and the torch in front of Hade’s chariot