The Mythology Book

79 See also: Theseus and the Minotaur 76–77 ■ Arachne and the spider 115 ■ The epic of Gilgamesh 190–97 Daedalus’s inventions ma ...

80 DAEDALUS AND ICARUS Daedalus and Icarus, by the Genoese master Domenico Piola (ca. 1670), shows Daedalus strapping wings to h ...

ANCIENT GREECE 81 Icarus falls from the sky as his father looks on in this engraving by Jean Matheus (ca.1610), from a translati ...

82 WATCHING THE GORGON’S HEAD IN THE POLISHED SHIELD, HE BEHEADED HER PERSEUS AND MEDUSA T he origins of Perseus were as extraor ...

83 Perseus’s armor consisted of items given to him by several different gods. Often, in ancient Greek mythology, enchanted items ...

84 HATE IS A BOTTOMLESS CUP, I WILL POUR AND POUR JASON AND MEDEA J ason, the rightful heir to the throne of Iolcos, grew up in ...

85 Medea prepares to murder Absyrtus and throw his remains overboard, as she and Jason flee Colchis together on board the Argo i ...

86 UNFORTUNATE OEDIPUS—OF ALL MEN, LEAST TO BE ENVIED! THE FATE OF OEDIPUS K ing Laius of Thebes was warned by his soothsayer (a ...

87 Oedipus blinds himself upon learning his wife’s identity in this miniature from De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (“On the Fates ...

88 SHE WANTS ADONIS MORE THAN SHE DOES HEAVEN ITSELF APHRODITE AND ADONIS E ven Aphrodite, the great goddess of love, was not im ...

89 See also: Orpheus and Eurydice 53 ■ Perseus and Medusa 82–83 ■ Cupid and Psyche 112–13 ■ Echo and Narcissus 114 ■ Pomona and ...

90 See also: The many affairs of Zeus 42–47 ■ The cult of Dionysus 52 ■ Vesta and Priapus 108–09 K ing Midas generously entertai ...

91 See also: The founding of Athens 56–57 ■ The Trojan War 62–63 ■ The quest of Odysseus 66–71 A tlantis was a mythical civiliza ...

ANCIENT ROME US_092-093_Ancient_Rome_Chapter_2_Opener.indd 92 01/12/17 4:22 pm ANCIENT ROME US_092-093_Ancient_Rome_Chapter_2_Op ...

ANCIENT ROME US_092-093_Ancient_Rome_Chapter_2_Opener.indd 93 01/12/17 4:22 pm ...

T he city of Rome is said to have been founded in 753 BCE by Romulus and Remus—two descendants of the Trojan prince Aeneas, whos ...

Ovid explores the creation, deities, history, and rituals of Rome in his poems, Fasti and Metamorphoses. The Thebaid, by Statius ...

I SING OF ARMS AND THE MAN AENEAS, FOUNDER OF ROME US_096-101_Aeneas.indd 96 01/12/17 4:22 pm I SING OF ARMS AND THE MAN AENEAS, ...

I SING OF ARMS AND THE MAN AENEAS, FOUNDER OF ROME US_096-101_Aeneas.indd 97 01/12/17 4:22 pm ...

98 T he Trojan prince Aeneas, the son of the mortal Anchises and the goddess Venus (Aphrodite), first appeared in Homer’s Iliad, ...