classical mythology polis and hero: theseus. aegeus, king of athens, consulting the delphic oracle....
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Classical Mythology
Polis and Hero: Theseus
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Aegeus, King of Athens, consulting the Delphic Oracle. Tondo of a cup attributed to the Kodrus Painter, ca 430. Berlin, Antikensammlung.
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Theseus’s rock at Troezen.
The Adventures of Theseus
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Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais.
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Ariadne and Dionysus. Derveni krater, IV. Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum.
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Geranos-dance ("crane dance"). Relief pithos from Tinos, VII.
François vase, details of Theseus’s Cretan adventure. Athenian volute krater by Cleitias and Ergotimus ca 570. Florence, Museo archeologico.
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Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais.
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Knossos, plan and aerial view.Sir Arthur Evans. Portrait by Sir William Richmond, before 1921. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum.
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Bull-leaping fresco from palace of Knossos, XVII. Herakleion, Archaeological Museum.
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The Deeds of Theseus. Athenian red-figured cup by the Kodros Painter, 430s. London, British Museum.
Cercyon
Procrustes
Sciron
Bull of Marathon
Sinis
The Sow of Crommyon
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Sinis
The Sow of Crommyon, Phaea
Sciron
Cercyon
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Procrustes
Bull of Marathon
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Theseus attacking an Amazon. Athenian red-figured dinos from the Group of Polygnotus, 440s.
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Model of Temple of Zeus, Olympia, 470-457
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Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs. Western pediment of the Temple of Zeus, 460s
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Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Phèdre et Hippolyte, early XIX. Paris, musée du Louvre
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Helen Mirren as Phèdre and Dominic Cooper as Hippolyte in Jean Racine’s Phèdre (1677), translated by Ted Hughes, at the National Theater, London, June 2009.
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Above, an assembly of gods: Pan, Apollo, Athena, Aphrodite and Poseidon. Below, an old retainer watches as a Fury and a bull terrify Hippolytus' team so that he falls to his death. The scene was perhaps inspired by Euripides' Hippolytus.Apulian pottery red-figured volute-krater by the Darius Painter, ca 330. London, British Museum.
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The Athenian Treasury at Delphi, early V. Metopes 1-8 show the deeds of Theseus; 9-14 an Amazonomachy, and 15-27 the deeds of Heracles.
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