UVM: CLAS 42 MYTHOLOGY: Ambrose Art Lecture II (slides)

Univeristy of Vermont
Classics Department
Mythology (Classics 42)

Art Lecture II: The Tantalids in Archaeology and Art

Slide description

Olympia: Temple of Zeus (c. 465-457) East Pediment: Zeus, Oenomaos and Wife; Pelops and Hippodameia
Correggio (1494, or 1489-1534): Jupiter and Io (ca. 1530), Vienna Art Museum
Leda and the swan (second century C.E.) Attica: sarcophagus of family of Herodes Atticus
Leda and the swan and Castor and Polydeuces, Clytemnestra and Helen; (Leonardo da Vinci [1452-1519] Collection, Rome)
Mycenae: to the northeast and Mt. Elias (Agamemnon)
Lion Gate (Late Helladic III: 1300-1200 B.C.E.)
Pylos: plan of palace (Late Helladic III) (Nestor)
Main Building, along axis of megaron
Pylos: throne room (reconstruction)
Court of megaron (reconstruction)
Pylos: queen's hall and bathroom
Terra-cotta bathtub in bathroom
'Mask of Agamemnon' (Mycenae: Grave 5) (Athens: National Museum)
Warrior vase (Mycenae, c. 1200 B.C.E. (Athens: National Musum)
RF kylix: Clytemnestra and slain Agamemnon (Attributed to Brygos Painter, c. 490 B.C.E.: Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art)
Attic RF vase. Orestes slaying Aegisthus and looking at fleeing Clytemnestra. (mid-fifth century)
Wall Painting. Carinthia (So. Austria, Roman Colony. Cassandra. first century C.E.)
Same place. Iphigenia
Etruscan painted terra-cotta slab: Iphigenia carried to altar (?). (seventh-sixth century B.C.E.; Louvre)
Pompeian wall painting: sacrifice of Iphigenia with Agamemnon and Calchas (first century B.C.E./C.E.; Naples Museum)
Etruscan burial urn: sacrifice of Iphigenia (third-second century B.C.E.; Perugia)
Pompeian wall painting: Orestes and Pylades among the Taurians, where Iphigenia is priestess (or before Aegisthus and Clytemnestra?)
Phoenico-Punic Tophet (Sacrificial area): Altar and urns for immolated children (Sulcis Sardinia; seventh-third century B.C.E.)

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