The Etruscan World (Routledge Worlds)

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PART V RELIGION IN ETRURIA ...

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CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR GREEK MYTH IN ETRUSCAN CULTURE Erika Simon G reek myth is present in all phases of Etruscan fi gural art. As ...

Erika Simon – Figure 24.1 Bucchero olpe found in Caere. Taitale (Daidalos). Rome, Villa Giulia (n. 2). Figure 24.2 Etruscan am ...

chapter 24: Greek myth in Etruscan culture – Agylla, was said to have been founded by Pelasgians from Thessaly.^14 It is possi ...

Erika Simon – and his brother Iolaos, both armed, in their fi ght against the Lernaean Hydra, a multi- headed serpent monster. ...

chapter 24: Greek myth in Etruscan culture – Figure 24.6 Handle side of Fig. 24.5: Aiax with the dead body of Achilles (repeat ...

Erika Simon – with a panther. He is Achilles with his teacher Cheiron and the divine messenger Iris between them. One of the s ...

chapter 24: Greek myth in Etruscan culture – belong together. On the left side (Fig. 24.10), cattle are guarded by a dog. The ...

Erika Simon – on another amphora by the same painter,^32 together with the centaur Cheiron, the future teacher of Achilles (se ...

chapter 24: Greek myth in Etruscan culture – century bce).^39 This piece in Berlin, with name inscriptions, is the best among ...

Erika Simon – During the fi fth century bce Greek myths came to be known by a new type of poetry: drama. Elsewhere I have show ...

chapter 24: Greek myth in Etruscan culture – Vessels like kraters and cups were used for festive drinking. This is the reason ...

Erika Simon – mother Semele (Semla). A satyr boy plays a double pipe at Apollo’s side. This god and Dionysos had near relation ...

chapter 24: Greek myth in Etruscan culture – acroterium, which I think depicts the sun god (Usil) with his horses. The goddess ...

Erika Simon – temple of the second quarter of the fi fth century bce. The terrible scene belongs to the Seven against Thebes. ...

chapter 24: Greek myth in Etruscan culture – Figure 24.23 Alabaster urn from Volterra. Oedipus between his dying sons; behind ...

Erika Simon – lion’s body and three heads (of lion, goat and serpent) was cast by an Etruscan artist in the early^ fourth cent ...

chapter 24: Greek myth in Etruscan culture – 24 von Hase (2008) 223 Figs. 1 a. b; T. Hirayama, Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure ...