Classical Mythology

Perseus and the Argonauts

Boxers, judge, observer. Panathenaic amphora attributed to the Cleophrades painter, early V. Paris, Louvre.Cf Cleomedes of Astypalaes.

The Menelaion near Sparta.

Boar tusk helmet from Mycenae, XIV. Warrior vase from Mycenae, XIII. Athens, National Archaeological Museum.

Procession of chariots on a Late Geometric amphora (ca 720–700 BC). Paris, Louvre Museum

USD at the Tomb of Atreus, Mycenae. Photo by Nickie Luhmann.

The Lion Gate at Mycenae.

Gilgamesh strangling a lion. Drawing of a sculpture in Khorsabad sculpture.

Perseus. Bronze by Benvenuto Cellini, 1545. Florence, Loggia dei Lanzi.

Jason and Athena. Red-figured cup by Douris, ca 480-470 BC. Rome, Vatican Museum.

Calais, Zetes on the Argo, an unnamed Argonaut boarding the penteconter. Athenian red-figure volute krater by the Talos Painter, ca 400. Ruvo, Museo Jatta. (Cf Buxton 112 for the main scene.)

The Argo. Scene from Pasolini’s Medea (1969)

Map showing the route taken by the Argo.

Jason and Athena. Red-figured cup by Douris, ca 480-470 BC. Rome, Vatican Museum.

Don Chaffey, Jason and the Argonauts (1963), special effects by Ray Harryhausen

Pasolini, Medea, 1969. (Start at 9:15)

Achilles Slaying Penthesileia: Exekias, ~530 (London, British Museum); Berlin Painter, ~490 (New York, Metropolitan Museum), Penthesileia Painter, ~460s (Munich, Alte Pinakothek)

Pasolini, Medea, 1969. (Start at 1:00.)

Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Phèdre et Hippolyte, early XIX. Paris, musée du Louvre