Classical Mythology
THE THEBAN SAGA 389 self before Theseus, the Chorus, and Oedipus, whose great speech in response is the most detailed defense of ...
(^390) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Polynices makes a self-serving speech, in which he describes the expedition that he ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 391 he is, and at peace with himself, leads him and the young women toward the place where his life will end. He ...
(^392) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS not ask to see what is not right for you to see, nor hear words that you should not ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 393 Oedipus Rex by Max Ernst (1891-1976); oil on canvas, 1922, 37 X 41 in. In this surrealist painting, Freudian ...
394 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS interpret the legend purely and solely in psychological terms. Nevertheless, psy- choan ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 395 Polybus and Merope of Corinth are his parents must reassure him that the mur- der of a fatherly figure who g ...
(^396) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Statius, whose epic, Thebaid, written in about A.D. 90, was widely read in Me- dieva ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 397 Hippomedon with a war-cry stands before the gates of Athena. ... It was no mean craftsman who placed this wo ...
(^398) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS top, he boasted that not even Zeus could keep him out, and for his blasphemy "Zeus," ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 399 who had attacked his own city. To leave the dead unburied was an offense against the gods, for it was the re ...
400 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS nices as a bribe. Alcmaeon, one of his sons, carried out these commands ten years later ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 401 f They say that Jupiter once had driven away his serious worries with nectar and was joking with Juno, sayin ...
402 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Oedipus still cannot believe Tiresias and goads him into telling him the truth even mor ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 403 There are several variants of the riddle and its answer. The shortest (Apollodorus 3. 53-54) is given here. ...
CHAPTER 18 THE MYCENAEAN SAGA The legends of Mycenae are particularly concerned with the House of Atreus and the greatest of its ...
THE MYCENAEAN SAGA 405 The existence of these myths is evidence enough that in the distant past some form of cannibalism once un ...
Zeus I Tantalus Oenomaus o CD Dioscuri Niobe r Pelopsi m. Hippodamia Zeus Tyndareus 1^ Helen *H h- Clytemnestra m. Agamemnon I I ...
THE MYCENAEAN SAGA 407 This version is simpler and probably older than the better-known one, ac- cording to which Pelops bribed ...
408 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Adrastus and Thyestes at Sicyon. Apulian red-figure krater by the Darius painter, ca. 3 ...
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