ClSt/ComL 200
Lecture Notes for January 20, 1999
notes for previous lecture
Seated
Goddess from Catal Huyuk 1 (c. 6000 BC)
Seated
Goddess from Catal Huyuk 2 (c. 6000 BC)
Seated
Goddess from Köskhöyük (5500-5000 BC)
Sacred
Marriage (Hieros Gamos)
Minoan
Snake Goddess from Cnossus (c. 1600 BC)
Artemis as Mistress of the Beasts (Potnia Theron):
Francois
vase (Attic volute crater, Clitias and Ergotimos, 570-560 BC)
left
handle
right
handle
Kore statues
"Peplos
Kore" (Athens, c. 530 BC)
Kouros statues
New
York kouros (Attic, 7th c. BC)
kouros
from Tenea (c. 570 BC)
kouros
from Anavysos (540-520 BC)
Representations of Zeus:
God of Thunder
Zeus
hurling his thunderbolt (c. 525 BC)
King of Olympus
Temple
of Zeus at Olympia: cross section with cult-statue
Sexual predator
Zeus abducting Europa
overview
detail
Zeus
abducting Ganymede
Father of the Gods
The
birth of Athena
detail
The
birth of Dionysus
Additional links:
Perseus Project
Goddess
Web
syllabus