Art Lecture II: The Tantalids in Archaeology and Art
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- 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.)
Classics 42: Mythology Slide Lectures
