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Indexer’s Note: Mythological characters are listed under their Greek names, even if their Roman names appear in the author’s text. Ancient works of art, all anonymous works, all manuscripts, and all monumental works in situ are listed by their current locations and by their artist’s name when known. Post-antique works not in situ are listed only under their artist’s name when known. Ancient and modern texts are listed under their authors when known. Text page numbers are listed ﬁ rst, ﬁ gure and plate numbers last.

Abraham and Isaac, 13–14 Aethiopis , 95 Accademia Ercolanese, 55 Agamemnon, 12 , 20 , 98 Achilles, 3 , 11–12 , 20 , 56 , 68 , 95 , 98 , 101, Agave, 201 , 203 115 , 139 Ajax, 45–6 , 68 , 95 Achilles Painter, Achilles Vase , 101 Alalu, 9 Acrisius, 160 , 163 , 194 Albani, Alessandro, 50 , 54 Actaeon, 13 , 67–9 , 86–7 , 104 , 106 , 123 , Alciati, Andrea, Emblemata , 185 135 , 139 , 162 , 176 , 201–11, fi gs. 30–2, Alcibiades, 141 48, 57, 74–5, plates V, XVIII Alcina, 187 Adad, 19 Alcmene, 99 Adam and Eve, 39–40 , 78 , 148 , 161, fi g. 42 Alexander the Great, 65 , 102 Adonis, 75 , 88 , 102 Alexandria, library of, 56 advertisements, myths depicted in, 152–5 Alfred of Mercia, legend of, 89–90 Ae ë tes, 14 Alma-Tadema, Lawrence: A Dealer Aegeus, 99 in Statues , 135 ; The Sculptor’s Aegina, Temple of Aphaia, 54 Model , 135 Aegisthus, 12 Amasis Painter, Black-fi gure olpe (Perseus Aeneas, 184–5 and Medusa with Hermes), 23 , 105 , 129, Aeschylus: Oresteia , 67 , 102 ; Seven Against plate I Thebes , 1 9 ; Toxotides , 203 ; Perseus Trilogy , 163 Amazons, 108 , 143 , 156 , 202, fi g. 15

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Ammannati, Bartolomeo, Hercules and Arion, 81–2 , 180 Antaeus fountain, 135 Ariosto, Ludovico, Orlando furioso , 187 , 196 Ammuna, 13 Aristotle, Poet ., 94–5 Amphitrite, 116 Artabanos, 174 Amphytrion, 99 Artemis, 5 , 13 , 50 , 68–9 , 91 , 104 , 106 , Amsterdam Town Hall, Fall of Icarus by 114–15 , 119 , 123 , 125 , 130 , 133 , 139 , Artus Quellien, 123, fi g. 60 143 , 156 , 176 , 201 , 203–7 , 210–11, fi gs. Andr é of Soisson, 42 31–2, 57, 74, plates V, XVIII, XXIV Andrea del Sarto, Icarus , 134 , 178, plate XV Arthurian legends, 88 Andrians, 49 , 134 Asclepiades, 27 Andromeda, 43 , 56 , 66 , 105 , 110 , 129 , 136 , Asclepius, 139 155–6 , 160 , 162–3 , 175–6 , 193–200 , Astarte, 10 210–11, fi g. 62, plates III, XVI–XVII astrology, 64–6 Anouilh, Jean, Antigone , 134 Athamas, 13 Antaeus, 45 , 49 , 132 , 135 , 155 Athena, 20–3 , 38–9 , 68 , 102 , 106 , 115 , Antichit à di Ercolano , 55 138–40 , 161 , 202, fi gs. 2, 23, 49, 58 . Antico, L’ (Pier Jacopo Ilario Bonacolsi), 49 See also Judgment of Paris Antigone, 100 , 134 Athens, National Archaeological Museum: Antiope, 56 black-fi gure hydria fragment (Icarus), Anu, 9–10 173 ; Dipylon Amphora , 104 Anz u ,̄ 16 Athens, Stoa Poikile , 102 Aphrodite, 7 , 10 , 20 , 42 , 45 , 49 , 50 , 56 , 63 , Atreus, 12 88–9 , 91 , 110 , 115–16 , 134–5 , 137 , 139 , Augustine, St., De civitate Dei , 164 155 , 157–8 , 166–8 , 185 , 197, fi g. 49, Augustus, 39 , 134–5 , 184 plates X, XXVI . See also Judgment of Paris Autonoe, 86 , 201 , 203 Apollo, 3 , 45 , 49 , 75 , 78 , 81 , 114 , 116 , Autun, St. Lazare, reliefs, 85–6 , 126 , 177, 119 , 137 , 140–1 , 144 , 147 , 179 , 186, fi gs. 46–7 fi g. 24 Avesta , 10 Apollodorus of Athens: Bibliotheca, 68 , 194 ; Avignon, Mus é e du Petit-Palais, Italian Epitome , 3 , 33 cassone (Bacchus and Ariadne; Theseus Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica , 3 , 184 and the Minotaur), 69 , 112 , 132 , 136, Apsu, 8 plates VI, XIII Apuleius, Metamorphoses (“Golden Ass”), 33 , 63–4 , 89 , 200 bacchantes, 115 Arachne, 138 , 140 Bandinelli, Baccio: Laoco ö n, 4 8 ; Orpheus , 48 Aratus, Phaenomena, 65 , 195 Barlaam of Calabria, 61 Arcadia, 66 Batman and Robin, 156 Arcas, 66 Baucis, 120 , 138 Arctinus of Miletus, 144 Beal, Jack: Dana ë II , 170, plate XXVIII ; Ares, 5 , 63 , 65 , 110 , 115 , 137 , 167–8, plate Return of Spring and Onset of Winter XXVI (Persephone murals), 169–70 Argus, 119 , 138 beauty and the beast theme, 200 Ariadne, 32 , 45 , 49 , 69 , 96 , 102 , 105–6 , Bell, John, The Octoroon , 197 , 200 109 , 112–13 , 115 , 125 , 127 , 132 , 134 , Bellerophon, 16 , 55 , 84 , 135 , 142 , 194–5 , 136 , 142–3, fi gs. 35, 54, plates VI, XIII 200, fi gs. 6, 65

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Bellini, Giovanni: Orpheus and Circe , 185–7, Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder, Fall of Icarus , plate XXV ; St. George and the Dragon , 197 178–9, plate XXIII Belon, Pierre, Observations , 53 Bruni, Leonardo, 62 Belzoni, Giovanni, 54 Brussels, Biblioth èque Royale, Christine de Benedictus Canonicus, Mirabilia Romae , 45 Pisan, Epî tre d’Othé a (MS fr. 9392), 73 , 79, Berlin, Pergamon Museum, Corinthian fi g. 38 black-fi gure amphora (Perseus and Buckley, Theodore, 63 Andromeda), 129–30 , 193, fi g. 62 Burne-Jones, Edward: Depths of the Sea, 92–3, Berlin, Staatliche Museen: drinking cup plate XII ; Pygmalion Series , 110 ; Wine of from Nola (Judgment of Paris), 20 , 22, Circe , 155 fi g. 11 ; metope from Troy (Helios), 10–11, fi g. 3 Caieta, 185 Bes, 22 Callimachus, 56 , 68 Bible, Old Testament stories, 10 , 13–14 , Callisto, 66 , 130 , 143 , 206, plate XXIV 39–40 , 71–3 , 78–9 , 81–4 , 148 , 161, fi gs. Calypso, 5 42, 44 . See also Abraham and Isaac ; Adam cameos, 40–4, fi gs. 23–4 and Eve ; Daniel ; David and Goliath ; Canova, Antonio, Theseus Triumphant , 134 Jonah ; Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife ; Caravaggio, Michelangelo da, 179 Samson Carracci, Annibale, Farnese Gallery Bibliotheca Ulpia of Trajan, 56 frescos, 126 Blake, William, Jehovah & His Two Sons Satan Carrey, Jacques, 53 and Adam (after the Laoco ö n ), 147–9, Cartari, Vincenzo, Le imagini colla sposizione fi g. 67 degli dei degli antichi, 6 3 Boar of Erymanthia, 43 Cassiopeia, 66 , 193 Bobbio, San Columbano, ivory pyxis, 142 Castello, Villa Medici, fountain by Boccaccio, Giovanni, De genealogia deorum Bartolomeo Ammannati (Hercules and gentilium , 60–1 , 63 , 164–5 , 194 , 205 Antaeus), 135 Bol, Hans, Daedalus and Icarus , 113 , 133 , 178 Castor and Pollux, 99 , 128 Boldrini, Niccolo (after Titian), caricature Catallus, 136 of the Laoco ö n , 146–7, fi g. 66 Catherine the Great, 51 Bologna, Giovanni da, Mercury , 154 Caxton, William, 63 Bomarzo, Attic black-fi gure cup with Cellini, Benvenuto, Ganymede , 48 Death of Actaeon (lost), 69 , 71 , 201, centaurs, 15 , 54 , 95 , 139–40 , 142 fi g. 30 Cephalus, 124 , 133 Boreas, 125 Cepheus, 110 , 175 , 193 , 195 Borghese, Scipione, 91 Cerberus, 139 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts: bell crater by Chandler, James, and William Pars, Lykaon Painter (Actaeon), 203 ; black- Antiquities of Iona , 53 fi gure cup (Circe and Odysseus), 106–7 , Chapman, Joseph, 63 182–3, fi g. 53 Charlemagne, 36 , 42 , 44 , 57 , 59 , 196 Botticelli, Sandro: Birth of Venus , 49 , 134 ; Charles I of France, 51 Primavera, 4 9 Chaucer, Geoffrey, House of Fame , 177 Boulougras, Thanos, Icarus , 77, plate VIII Chicago, Oriental Institute, Mesopotamian Briseis, 98 cylinder seal impression (Ninurta and British Society of the Dilettanti, 53 monster), 17–18, fi g. 8

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Chimaera, 16 , 55 , 135 , 139 , 194–5 , 200, Cranach, Lucas, the Elder, Judgment of Paris , fi gs. 6, 65 88–90 , 145, plate IX Chiron, 139–40 Cranach, Lucas, the Younger, Diana and Chloris, 49 Actaeon , 206–7 Choiseul-Gouffi er, Marie-Gabriel, Comte Creon, 87 , 134 de, Voyage pittoresque de la Grè ce II , 54 Creusa, 88 Christ, depictions of, 70 , 74–8 , 87 , 142 , Cronus, 7–10 161 , 178–9, fi gs. 40–1 Cross of Archbisop Heriman of Christian reception of ancient myths, 58 , Cologne, 78 69–78 Cyclopes, 119 Chrysaor, 195 Cyclops, 73 , 159 , 175–6, fi g. 38 Chryse ï s, 133 Cypria, 103 Chrysoloras, Manuel, 61–2 Cyriacus of Ancona, 53 Cicero: on myths, 47 ; Somnium Scipionis , 57 Daedalus, 14 , 55 , 64 , 105 , 110 , 113 , 125 , Circe, 64 , 106–8 , 115 , 133 , 137 , 141–2 , 129–30 , 133–4 , 142 , 174–80 , 182 , 193 , 155 , 162 , 182–93 , 209–11, fi gs. 28, 53, 210–11 55, 71–2, plates XXV, XXIX Dal í , Savador, V é nus de Milo with Clash of the Titans (fi lm), 156 Drawers , 135 Classical revival in medieval art, 34–45 , 59 Dana ë , 14 , 69 , 105 , 109 , 120–1 , 128–9 , Claude Lorrain: Cephalus and Procris Reunited 145 , 159–60 , 162–72 , 193 , 210–11, by Diana , 133 ; Ulysses Returns Chryseï s to fi gs. 33–4, 59, 69–70, plates XIV, XXII, Her Father , 133 XXVIII Cleostratus of Tenedos, 65 Daniel, 10 Cleveland, Museum of Art, Apulian situla Dante Alighieri, Inferno , 60 , 177 (Bellerophon and Chimaera), 16–17, Daphne, 41, fi g. 24 fi g. 6 Darwin, Charles, On the Origin of Species , Clouet, Fran ç ois, Bath of Diana ; 123 , 199–200 139–40 , 206, plate XVIII David and Goliath, 71 , 73 Clytemnestra, 12 , 128 , 169 , 183 De septem miraculis mundi , 45 Cockerell, Charles, 54 Deianira, 115 , 116 , 140 coins, 33 , 37 , 39 , 51 , 70 , 123 , 161 Delphi, Treasury of the Athenians, 108–9 Column of Antonius Pius, 71 Delphic oracle, 163 Conrad of Querfurt, 44–5 Demeter, 133 Constantinople, Fall of (1453), 62 Demetrius Cydones, 61 constellations, 65–6 , 195 , 206 Dempeter, Thomas, De Etruria regali, 5 2 Conti, Natale, Mythologiae sive explicationis Dente, Marco (after Raphael), Laoco ö n , 47 fabularum libri decem , 63 Didyma (Turkey), Temple of Apollo, relief Copernicus, Nicolaus, 64 (Medusa), 22, fi g. 12 copies after ancient works of art, 33 , 48 , Dio Chrysostom, 89 50 , 54 , 91 , 205 Diodorus Siculus, 91 , 99 , 174 Corpus vasorum antiquorum , 53 Dionysus, 3 , 5 , 13 , 48–9 , 50 , 69 , 78 , 100 , Correggio: Dana ë , 165 ; Leda and the 106 , 112–13 , 115 , 125 , 134 , 139–41 , Swan , 165 204, plate VI Council of Ferrara, 62 Dioscuri, 99 , 128

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Dirce, 45 Flavio Biondo, Roma instaurata , 45 Dossi, Dosso, Circe (or Melissa ), 142 , 187 Flaxman, John: drawings by, 124 , 147 ; St. Douris, Kylix (Jason Disgorged by the Michael and the Dragon , 197 Dragon), 69 Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Hercules and Antaeus , Draper, Herbert, Lament for Icarus , 76 , 123, 45 , 49 plate VII Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, Studiolo of Dupr é , Louis, 54 Francesco I de Medici, 126 D ü rer, Albrecht, Adam and Eve , 116 Florence, San Lorenzo, Tomb of Giuliano de Medici by Michelangelo, 49 Ea, 8 Florence, Uffi zi: Marsyas , 45 ; Medici Echo, 91 , 139 Venus , 197 Electra, 67 , 169 Fontana, Lavinia, Minerva Dressing , 115 , 117, Elgin, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of, 54 ; Elgin fi g. 58 marbles, 187 Frederick II of Sicily, 36 Elshemer, Adam, Jupiter and Mercury in the Fr é miet, Emmanuel, Gorilla Carrying Off a House of Philemon and Baucis , 120 , 138 Woman , 200 Endymion, 32 , 102 , 115 Freud, Sigmund, 26 , 169 Enkidu, 12 , 22 FTD Florists “Hermes” logo, 154 Enlil, 16 Fulgentius, Mythologiarum , 58 , 165 , 185 , 205 Enuma Elish , 8 Eos, 125 Gaia, 7 , 65 , 155 Epiphanius of Salamis, De duodecim Galatea, 110 , 143–4 , 158 , 175–6 lapidibus , 42 Galen of Pergamon, 146 Equus, 195 Galilei, Galileo, 64 Eratosthenes, Catasterisms , 65 Galli, Jacopo, garden of, 49 Ericthonius, 39 Ganymede, 15 , 19 , 48 , 68 , 71 , 108 , 116 , Eros, 44 , 56 , 91 , 165 , 167–8 , 200, plate X 119 , 125 Erotes, 91 Gell, William, 53 Etana, 14–15 , 19 gems, 42–4 , 51 Eteocles, 19 Geryon, 139 , 177 Eudoxus of Cnidus, 64–5 Giersing, Harald, Judgment of Paris , 121–2, Euphronios, Red-fi gure crater (Death of plate XX Sarpedon), 116 Gilgamesh, 10–14 , 22 Euripides: popularity, 56 ; Cretans , 174 ; Giraldi, Gregorio, Historia de deis gentium , 63 Electra , 6 7 ; Hippolytus, 6 8 ; Medea , 88 ; Giulio Romano, 51 Phaethon , 7 8 ; Trojan Women , 102 Glauce, 88 Europa, 3 , 69 , 105 , 111–13 , 115 , 128 , 135 , Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Der 138, fi gs. 29, 56 Fischer, 9 2 Eurydice, 127 , 132 , 156–7 Golden Fleece, 115 Eurylochus, 107 , 182 Goltzius, Hendrick, Perseus and Eustathius of Thessalonica, 38 Andromeda, 197 Gorgons (including Medusa), 8 , 21–2 , 43 , Farnese, Alessandro, 167 66 , 71 , 129 , 135–6 , 139 , 141 , 152–4 , Fauvel, Louis, 54 163 , 173 , 175 , 188 , 193–5, fi gs. 2, 12, fi lm, myths depicted in. See media, popular 61, 68, plate I

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Gossaert, Jan: Heracles and Deianira, 116 ; Hermes, 5 , 21 , 23 , 42–3 , 64–5 , 89 , 91 , 101 , Hermaphroditus and Salmacis , 113 , 116 ; 105 , 115 , 119 , 120 , 125 , 138–9 , 154 , Neptune and Amphitrite , 116 173 , 182–3 , 185, plate I Gower, John, Confessio Amantis , 89 Hero, 119 , 157–8 Graces, 45 , 49 , 88–90 , 135, fi gs. 19–21 Herodotus, 7 , 39 , 81 , 99–100 , 102 , 174 Greek Magical Papyri , 64 Hesiod: popularity of, 56 , 67 ; Astronomia , Greene, Robert, Planetomachia , 63 6 4 ; Ehoiai , 201 ; Opera et Dies , 10 , 64 , 99 ; Greenough, Horatio, George Washington , Theogonia , 7–10 , 16 , 65 , 184 135 Hesperides, 176 Gregory of Tours, De cursibus ecclesiasticis, Hilaire, St., 44 65–6 Hippodamia, 12 griffi ns, 139 , 142 Hippolyte, 156 Grimm, Brothers, Children’s and Household Hippolytus, 44 , 84 Tales , 159 Holbach, Paul-Henri, Syst è me de la nature, 133 Grosz, George, Circe , 189–91 , 211, fi g. 71 Homer: authority of, 6 , 60 , 64 , 94 , 97 ; Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructione Iliad , 8 , 10–11 , 13 , 16–17 , 38 , 56–8 , Troiae , 60 , 89 63 , 67 , 95 , 98 , 102–3 , 115 , 163 , 202 ; Guillaume de Champagne, 42 Odyssey, 7 , 56 , 58 , 63 , 67 , 91 , 95–6 , 99 , 103 , 114 , 133 , 144 , 182–5 , 188–9 Hades, 44 , 74 , 127 , 132–3 , 170 Homeric Hymns , 63 , 140 Hadrian’s Villa, 33 Honthorst, Gerard, Merry Flea Hunt, 120 , Halicarnassus, Mausoleum of, 31 , 38, fi g. 15 170, plate XIX Hamilton, William, Antiquit é s etrusques, Horace: authority of, 33 , 59–60 , 63 , 68 ; grecques et romaines , 52 , 124 Carmina , 164 , 166 ; Epistulae , 185 harpies, 139 Horae, 203–4 Hebe, 43 Humbaba, 12 , 22 Hecataeus, 99 Hyades, 64 Hecate, 64 Hydra, 8 , 17–19 , 95 , 188, fi g. 7 Hector, 115 Hyginus: authority of, 33 , 68 ; Fabulae , 144 ; Heemskerk, Maarten van, 49 Poetica astronomica , 66 Hegesippus, 84 Hylas, 91 Helen, 88 , 90 , 96 , 108 , 128 , 135 , 183 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili , 164 Helios, 10 , 13 , 65 , 70 , 78 , 161 , 175 , 182, fi g. 3, plate IV Icarus, 56 , 76–7 , 84–5 , 105 , 110 , 113 , 123 , Helle, 14 125–6 , 129–30 , 133–4 , 142 , 154 , 162 , Hephaestus, 100 , 110 , 119 , 137 , 167–8, 173–81 , 193 , 210–11, fi gs. 45, 60, 63–4, plate XXVI plates VII–VIII, XV, XXIII Hera, 5 , 20 , 38 , 43 , 125 , 138–9 , 202, fi g. iconoclasm, 38 , 58 49 . See also Judgment of Paris Iliad . See Homer, Iliad Heracles, 8 , 17–18 , 19 , 37 , 42–3 , 45 , 49 , Imduguds, 15 71 , 75 , 95 , 98 , 102–3 , 110 , 115–16 , 125 , Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique: Jupiter and 130 , 132 , 135 , 140 , 142 , 155–6 , 175–6 , Thetis , 134–5 ; Oedipus Explains the Riddle of 202–3, fi gs. 7, 22, plate II the Sphinx , 27 , 29 , 128, fi g. 14 ; Ruggiero Herculaneum, 55 , 134 Delivering Angelica , 196, plate XXX Hermaphroditus, 50 , 91–2 , 113 , 116, fi g. 27 Io, 119 , 138

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Iolaus, 156 Leighton, Frederic: Daedalus and Icarus , 134 ; Iphicles, 99 The Fisherman and the Syren , 92–3 Ishtar, 10 , 13 , 65 Leto, 116 Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , 42–3 , 65 Liberale da Verona, cassone (Rape of Island of Dr. Moreau (fi lms), 191–2 Europa), 111–12, fi g. 56 Istanbul, Archeological Museum, Orpheus Little Iliad , 68 , 95 Mosaic (from Jerusalem), 142 London, British Library: Christine de Pisan, Istanbul, National Museum, Neo-Hittite Oeuvres poé tiques (MS Harley 4431), 105 , stone relief stele (Tarhunt), 18–20, fi g. 9 194 , 197, plate III ; Moutier-Grandval Bible (Cod. Add. 10546), 78 , 82, fi g. 45 Jason, 96 , 115 , 139 London, British Museum: black-fi gure Jason and the Argonauts (fi lms), 156 olpe by the Amasis Painter (Perseus Jerusalem Orpheus Mosiac , 142 and Medusa with Hermes), 23 , 105 , John of Damascus, St., 61 129, plate I ; Boeotian bronze fi bula Jonah, 79 , 81–3, fi g. 44 (Heracles and the Hydra, and Trojan Jordaens, Jacob, Mercury and Argus, 119 Horse), 17–18 , 95 , 103, fi g. 7 ; Crouching Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife, 84 Aphrodite , 50 , 205 ; Geometric Basin, Joyce, James, Ulysses, 133 , 191 95–7 , 108 , 116–17, fi g. 50 ; Egyptian Judgment of Paris (Aphrodite, Athena, and papyrus of Ani (Re), 10–11, fi g. 4 ; Greek Hera), 20–22 , 45 , 88–9 , 103 , 115 , 121–2 , coin of Heraclea (Heracles), 37, fi g. 125–6 , 139 , 145, fi gs. 11, 22, plates IX, XX 22 ; Halicarnassus relief, 30–1, fi g. 15 ; Julius Caesar, 32 , 39 Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles, 187 ; red- Jung, Carl, 26 fi gure kalpis by the Pan Painter (Perseus Juvenal, 33 , 59 , 63 , 68 and Medusa with Athena), 8–9 , 21 , 106, fi g. 2 ; red-fi gure pelike by the Marsyas Kaufman, Angelica, Jupiter in the Guise of Painter (Peleus and Thetis), 118 ; red- Diana and the Nymph Callisto , 143 fi gure stamnos by the Siren Painter Kimon, 100 (Odysseus and the Sirens), 91 , 107 , King Kong (fi lm), 199–200 114, plate XI ; sculptures from Temple Kingsley, Charles, Perseus , 199 of Apollo, Bassae, 54 ; terra-cotta relief Klimt, Gustav: sexuality of, 168 ; Dana ë , (Bellerophon and the Chimaera), 135–6 , 169, plate XIV ; Judith I and Judith II , 169 ; 195, fi g. 65 ; terra-cotta relief (Perseus Leda, 169 ; Water Serpents , 92 and Medusa), 129 , 195, fi g. 61 Kumarbi, 9 Louis XIV, 50 Louis XVI, 51 labyrinth, 109 , 112 , 142 Lucan, 59 , 60 Laelaps, 124 Lucian, 33 , 47 , 68 , 124 Laestrygonians, 185 Luther, Martin, 89 Lamassu, 105 Lyssa, 203 Laoco ö n, 46–8 , 49 , 134 , 144–50, fi gs. 25–6 Lapiths, 38 , 54 , 140 Macedonian Renaissance, 38 , 59 Leander, 119–20 , 157–8 Macrobius: Commentarii (on Cicero), 57 ; Leda, 42 , 99 , 128 , 136 , 165–6 , 169 Saturnalia , 57 Lef è vre, Raoul, Recueil des histoires de Troyes , Maenads, 115 89–90, fi g. 49 Mander, Karel van, Het Schilderboeck , 168

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Manet, É douard, Olympia , 121 Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Iliad (Cod. F. Manship, Paul: Actaeon , 207–9 , 211, fi g. 75 ; 205, Inf.), 57 Diana , 207 , 211 Millais, John Everett, Knight Errant , 197–9, Manutius, Aldus, 62 , 164 plate XXXII Marbod of Rennes, De lapidibus , 42–3 Minos, 56 , 99 , 112 , 173 , 175 Marduk, 8 , 65 Minotaur, 15 , 95 , 105 , 109 , 112–13 , 132 , Marsyas, 45 , 100 , 140–1 , 147 , 179 134–5 , 139, fi g. 54, plate XIII Marsyas Painter, Red-fi gure pelike (Peleus Mirabilia Romae , 45 and Thetis), 118 moly plant, 182 , 183 Martial, 68 Montorsoli, Giovanni, Orion Fountain , Martianus Capella, Philologia, 57–8 125 Mary, Virgin, 162 , 164 , 168 , 172 Moreau, Gustave, Orpheus at the Tomb of Masson, Andr é , Bacchanale , 191 Eurydice, 127–8 Master Gregory, De mirabilibus urbis Moreau, Gustave, St. George and the Dragon, Romae , 45 197 Matisse, Henri, The Circe Episode , 191–2, Morris, William, “The Doom of King fi g. 72 Acrisius,” 199 Maximus Planudes, 59 Munich, Glyptothek, Barberini Faun , 50 McGibbon, Phyllis, Panning for Gold (Did Munich, Glyptothek, sculptures from the Danaë Really Yearn for the Passion of Zeus?) , Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, 54 170–2 , 211, fi g. 70 Mursili, 12 Medea, 64 , 87 , 96 , 115 , 183 Muses, 56 media, popular (television, theater, and My Fair Lady (fi lm), 158 fi lm), myths depicted in, 156–60 , 199 Mykonos, Museum, Terra-cotta relief amphora Medici, Lorenzo de, 51 , 134 , 178 , 195 with Trojan Horse , 103–4, fi g. 52 medicine, 64 Myrtilus, 12 , 106 Medusa, 8 , 21–2 , 43 , 66 , 71 , 129 , 135–6 , 141 , 152–4 , 163 , 173 , 188 , 193–4 , 195, naiads, 91 fi gs. 2, 12, 61, 68, plate I Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: Melissa, 142 , 187 Farnese Bull, 45 ; Farnese Hercules, 45 , 155 ; Menelaus, 96 , 108 Roman sarcophagus (Prometheus), 78 , Mengs, Anton, 52 83, fi g. 43; Tazza Farnese, 4 9 ; Three Graces mermaids, 91–2 fresco, 33 , 35, fi g. 20; Tyrannicides , 31, Messina, Orion Fountain by Giovanni fi g. 17 Montorsoli, 125 Napoleon I, 50 , 54 Michelangelo: infl uenced by the Laoco ö n , Narcissus, 91 , 110 , 139 146 ; Bacchus , 48–9 ; Ganymede , 116 ; Leda Near Eastern myths, 5–25 (lost), 166 ; Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 49 ; Nebuchadnezzar, 10 Tomb of Giuliano de Medici, 49 , 166 , 169 Neckham, Alexander, Albrici philosophi liber Midas, 134 , 141 ymaginum deorum , 60 Middle Ages, appreciation of ancient Nemean Lion, 19 , 37 , 71, fi g. 22, plate II myths during the, 34–45 , 56–62 Nephele, 14 Mielot, Jean, illumination in Christine de Nereids, 44 , 66 , 193 Pisan, Epî tre d’Othé a à Hector (Odysseus Nero, Domus Aurea of, 47 , 145 and Polyphemus), 73 , 79, fi g. 38 Nessus, 132 , 140

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New York, (formerly) Edward Merrin Painter of the Boston Polyphemus, Gallery, bronze Icarus, 130–1 , 174, Black-fi gure cup (Circe and Odysseus), fi g. 63 106–7 , 182–3, fi g. 53 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Palermo, Museo Archeologico: Greek majolica dish by Master F.R. (Diana and metope from Temple E, Selinus Actaeon), 69 , 73 , 204–6, fi g. 32 (Artemis and Actaeon), 201–2, fi g. 74 ; New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Greek metope from Temple Y, Selinus Assyrian cylinder seal impression (Europa), 69–70, fi g. 29 ; Roman mosaic (Ninurta), 16, fi g. 5 (Orpheus), 74 , 80 , 139, fi g. 39 Newsweek parody of the Laoco ö n (1974), Palmyra mosaics, 55 149–50 Pan, 125 , 140 , 142 , 186, plate XVIII Ninsun, 12 Pan Painter, Red-fi gure kalpis (Perseus and Ninurta, 16, fi gs. 5, 8 Medusa with Athena), 8–9 , 21 , 106, fi g. 2 Nixon, Richard, in Newsweek parody of the Paris of Troy, 96 , 104 : Judgment of, 20–22 , Laoco ö n (1974), 149–50 45 , 88–9 , 103 , 115 , 121–2 , 125–6 , 139 , Nointel, Charles-Fran ç ois Olier, Marquis 145, fi gs. 11, 22, plates IX, XX de, 53 Paris, Biblioth è que Nationale: Paris Psalter Nymphs (including Galatea), 91 , 110 , (MS Grec 139), 139 ; Raoul Lef è vre, 143–4 , 158 , 175–6 , 186 , 203 Recueil des histoires de Troyes (MS fr. 22552), 89–90, fi g. 49 ; Roman cameo (Poseidon O Brother, Where Art Thou? (fi lm), 159 and Athena), 39–40 , 161, fi g. 23 Oceanus, 8 , 10 Paris, Mus é e du Louvre: Borghese Odysseus, 68 , 71 , 73 , 106–8 , 114–15 , Hermaphroditus , 50 , 91, fi g. 27 ; Borghese 128 , 133 , 137 , 145 , 156 , 159 , 162 , 176 , Warrior, 209 ; Dianne Chasseresse, 50 ; Roman 182–5 , 187–91 , 193 , 210–11, fi gs. 36, sarcophagus (Diana and Actaeon), 86–7 , 38, 53, 55, plates XI, XXI, XXIX 116 , 123 , 203–4, fi gs. 48, 57 ; Silenus, 5 0 ; Odyssey. See Homer, Odyssey Three Graces (Roman copy), 33–4, fi g. 19 ; Oedipus, 27 , 72 , 100 , 128 , 142, V é nus de Milo , 122 , 155 fi gs. 13–14 Paris, UNESCO Building, Fall of Icarus Oenomaus, 12 , 101 , 106 mosaic by Pablo Picasso, 132 , 180–1, Olympia, Temple of Zeus, 101 , 106 , 134 , fi g. 64 209 Pars, William, 53 Omphale, 132 Parthenon, 38–9 , 43 , 53–4 , 68 , 70 , 108 , Orestes, 67 , 106 , 111 , 115 143 , 187 Orion, 64 Pasiphae, 56 , 63 Orpheus, 8 , 48 , 64 , 73–5 , 105 , 108 , 115 , Patroclus, 12 , 46 127 , 132–3 , 139 , 142 , 145 , 156–7 , Pausanius, 31 , 33 , 39 , 47 , 68 , 100 , 102 185–7, fi g. 39, plate XXV Pegasus, 16 , 55 , 66 , 135 , 142 , 154 , Otto I, 44 194–6 , 200 Ovid: Amores , 164 ; Ars Amatoria , 164 , 174 ; Peirithoos, 140 Heroides , 142 , 157 ; Metamorphoses , 33 , Peisistratus, 142 59–60 , 63 , 68 , 91 , 93 , 120 , 124 , 138 , Peleus, 98 , 118 , 137 157–8 , 162 , 166 , 174 , 176 , 178 , 193–4 , Pella, Lion Hunt mosaic, 30–1, fi g. 16 203–6 Pelops, 12 , 101 , 106 Ovide moralisé , 60 , 124 , 164 , 177 , 194 Penelope, 3 , 135 , 137 , 142

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Penthesilea, 3 Pliny, the Elder, Natural History , 33 , 43 , 47 , Pentheus, 204 68 , 91 , 124 , 145 Perdix, 14 Plutarch: descriptions of ancient art, 33 ; Pericles, 142 Cimon , 100 ; Theseus , 99 Persephone, 44 , 133 , 170 Poggio Bracciolini, Gian-Francesco, 62 Perses, 160 Poliziano, Angelo, 49 Perseus, 8 , 14–15 , 21–2 , 43 , 56 , 66 , 71 , Pollaiuolo, Antonio del: inspired by 105–6 , 108 , 110 , 128–9 , 135–6 , 156 , ancient vases, 51–2 ; Heracles and Antaeus 162–4 , 166 , 172–3 , 175–6 , 193–200 , (bronze), 135 ; Heracles and Antaeus 210–11, fi gs. 2, 34, 61–2, plates I, III, (painting), 135 XVI–XVII Pollux, 99 , 128 Persians, 143 , 174 Polycleitus, Doryphoros , 101 , 209 Petrarch, 60–1 Polycles, 91 Phaedra, 44 , 183 Polycrates of Samos, 99 Phaethon, 13 , 125 Polydectes, 129 Pherecydes, 163 , 166 , 194–5 Polyneices and Eleocles, 19 Phidias: style, 209 ; Zeus , 134 Polyphemus, 73 , 159 , 175–6, fi g. 38 Philemon, 120 , 138 Pompeii: excavations, 55 ; House of Sallust, Philip IV of Spain, 91 Diana and Actaeon , 69 , 72 , 207, fi g. 31 ; Philostphanus of Cyrene, 68 House of the Marine Venus, fresco, 134 ; Philostratus, 47 , 124 House of the Priest Amandus, Fall of Icarus , Phoenix, 98 84 , 126 , 175–6 , 194, fi g. 45, plate XVI Pholus, 140 Pompey, 39 Phrynichus, 203 Pope, Alexander, 63 Phryxus, 13–14 , 135 Poseidon, 5 , 38–9 , 56 , 99 , 116 , 161 , 184 , Picasso, Pablo, Fall of Icarus, 132 , 180–1, 193, fi g. 23 fi g. 64 Poussin, Nicolas, Midas and Bacchus , 134 Piero di Cosimo, Liberation of Andromeda , Powers, Hiram, Greek Slave , 197–8 , 200, 195, plate XVII fi g. 73 Pindar: autority of, 56 ; Nemean Odes , 68 , 99 ; Praxiteles, Knidia , 134 Olympian Odes , 68 Priam, 115 Pinocchio (fi lm), 158 Primaticcio, Francesco, Dana ë (lost), 165–6 Pinturicchio, Bernardino, Penelope and Procris, 133 Telemachos , 137 Prometheus, 44 , 75 , 78 , 86 , 142 , 180, Pisan, Christine de: Ep î tre d’Othé a à Hector , fi g. 43 73 , 79 , 89 , 185, fi g. 38 ; Oeuvres poé tiques , Proteus, 194 105 , 194 , 197, plate III Psyche, 44 , 56 , 142 , 200 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Roman psychoanalysis, 26 sarcophagus with Three Graces, 33 , 35, Ptolemy: Almagest , 65–6 ; Tetrabiblos , 66 fi g. 21 Pygmalion, 110 , 143–4 , 158–9 planets, 64–5 Pyramus, 157 Plato: on magic; 64 ; Republica , 98 ; Python, 3 Symposium , 141 Plautus, 59 Quellien, Artus, Fall of Icarus , 180 Pleiades, 64 Quintilian, 47

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Raphael: infl uenced by Vatican Virgil , 57 ; St. Rome, Vatican Museums: Achilles Vase, Michael and the Dragon, 197 ; Three Graces , 101 ; Apollo Belvedere, 45 , 48–9 , 116 , 134 ; 49 , 135 Attic red-fi gure cup (Oedipus and the Rapunzel, 159–60 Sphinx), 27 , 72, fi g. 13 ; Belvedere Torso , Ravenna, Galla Placidia mausoleum (Good 45 , 49 ; Claudius as Jupiter , 103 ; Laoco ö n , Shepherd mosaic), 74 , 80, fi g. 40 46–9 , 134–5 , 145–50, fi g. 25 ; Otricoli Re, 10, fi g. 4 Head of Zeus , 135 ; Roman sarcophagus Redon, Odilon, Birth of Venus , 134 (Jonah), 81 , 83, fi g. 44 ; Sleeping Ariadne , Regni é r, Nicolas, Hero and Leander , 119–20 45 , 48–9 , 134 Rembrandt, Andromeda , 197 Rome, Villa Farnesina, Sala di Galatea by Retza, Franciscus de, De generatione Christi, Sebastiano del Piombo, 125–6 sive defensorium inviolatae castitatis B.V.M. , Rome, Villa Giulia, Red-fi gure crater by 164–5, fi g. 69 Euphronius (Death of Sarpedon), 97 , Revett, Nicholas, 53 101–2 , 116, fi g. 51 Rhea, 7 Rubens, Peter Paul: drawings of the Borghese Rhodian coin with Helios, 161, plate IV Hermaphroditus , 91 ; Fall of Icarus , 179 ; Ribera, Jusepe de, Apollo Flaying Perseus and Andromeda, 197 ; Prometheus Marsyas , 179 Bound , 180 Richmond, Virginia, Museum of Fine Ruskin, John, 199 Arts, bronze group (Odysseus), 77, fi g. 36 Sabratha, Roman theater, 88 Robert, Herbert, Interior of an Imaginary Salmacis, 91–2 , 113 , 116 Palace with the Group of the Laocoö n , 135 Samson, 71–2 Rodin, Auguste, 207 Sandusky Portland Cement “Medusa” logo, Rome, Baths of Caracalla, 45 153, fi g. 68 Rome, Capitoline Museums: Capitoline Sandys, Frederick, Medea , 115 Venus , 45 , 49 ; Commodus as Hercules , 103 ; Sandys, George, 63 Esquiline Venus , 135 ; mosaic from the Sarpedon, 97 , 101–2, fi g. 51 Aventine Hill, 188 satyrs, 50 , 140 Rome, Domus Aurea of Nero, 47 , 145 Scavi di Ostia, Roman relief (Salvage of a Rome, Esquiline Hill, Odyssey Landscapes , Greek Statue), 33, fi g. 18 113 , 133 Scianna, Cosimo, “Medusa” advertisement, Rome, Mausoleum of the Julii (Sol Invictus 152–3 mosaic), 78 , 81, fi g. 41 Sebastiano del Piombo, Sala di Galatea, Rome, National Etruscan Museum, Chigi Villa Farnesina, 125–6 vase, 21 Selene, 65 Rome, Palazzo Braschi, Pasquino group, Selinus, acropolis: Temple E, metope 45–6 reliefs, 201–3, fi g. 74 ; Temple Y, metope Rome, Palazzo Farnese, ceiling by Annibale reliefs, 69–70, fi g. 29 Carracci, 125–6 Semele, 3 , 13 , 68 , 201 Rome, Sant’ Agnese fuori le Mura, altar, 44 Seneca: De Benefi ciis , 49 ; Hercules Rome, Vatican Library: Vatican Virgil (Cod. Oetaeus , 179 Vat. lat. 3225), 47–8 , 57 , 184–5, fi gs. Shakespeare, William, Romeo and Juliet , 157 26, 28 ; Vergilius Romanus (Cod. Vat. lat. Shamash, 12 3867), 57 Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein , 158 , 191

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Siena, Duomo: sacristy basin, 44 ; Three television, myths depicted in. See media, Graces , 45 , 49 , 135 popular Silenus, 50 , 112 , 139–41 Tessub, 9 Simon Magus, 84–5 , 126 , 176–7, fi gs. 46–7 Tethys, 8 sirens, 15 , 71 , 91–3 , 107 , 128 , 139 , 159, Texas College Art Show poster by John plates XI, XXI Cowan, parody of the Laoco ö n , 151, Sloan, Hans, 52 plate XXVII Socrates, 141 Theodoric, 36 Sol Invictus, 78, fi g. 41 Theodosius I, 38 Somewhere in Time (fi lm), 156–7 Theophrastus, Historia plantarum , 64 Song of Kumarbi , 9 Thermon, Temple of Apollo, 108 Sophocles: Antigone , 100 , 134 ; Electra , 67 ; Theseus, 69 , 99–100 , 102 , 105–6 , 109–10 , Laoco ö n (lost), 144 112–13 , 127 , 132 , 134 , 136 , 142–3, fi gs. Sphinx, 15 , 27 , 72 , 128 , 139, fi gs. 13–14 35, 54, plate XIII St. George and the Dragon, 196–7 , 200, Thetis, 11–12 , 118 , 134 , 137 plate XXXI Thisbe, 157 St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Three Graces, 34–5 , 45 , 49 , 88–90 , 135, Museum: Attic red-fi gure crater by fi gs. 19–21 the Triptolemus Painter (Dana ë ), 69 , Thucydides, 30 74–5 , 163, fi gs. 33–4 ; cornelian intaglio Thyestes, 12 (Zeus), 19 , 21, fi g. 10 Tiamat, 8 Star Trek , 156 Tintoretto, Venus and Mars Surprised by Stesichorus, 68 , 201 Vulcan , 110 Strabo, 32 , 99 Tischbein, Wilhelm, 52 Strauss, Richard, Electra , 169 Titanomachy, 7 Stuart, James, and Nicholas Revett, Titans, 7 , 156 Antiquities of Athens , 53 Titian: The Andrians, 49 , 134 ; Bacchus and succession myths, pre-Greek, 7–10 Ariadne, 134 ; Dana ë (Madrid), 120–1 , Suetonius, Divus Iulius , 32 126 , 166 , 173, fi g. 59 ; Dana ë (Naples), Superman, 156 166–7 ; Diana and Actaeon, 69 , 106 , 126 , Swinburne, Algernon, Hermaphroditus , 93 205–7, plate V ; Diana and Callisto, 206, Sylvester II, Pope, 36 plate XXIV ; Rape of Europa, 138 ; Venus of Urbino , 166 ; (Niccolo Boldrini after), Tabula Iliacae (Circe and Odysseus), 110 , caricature of the Laoco ö n , 146–7, fi g. 66 183, fi g. 55 Tityus, 116 Tantalus, descendency saga compared with Tivoli, Hadrian’s Villa, 33 Hittite version, 12–13 Tri Star Pictures “Pegasus” logo, 154 Taormina, theater, 45 Triptolemus Painter, crater (Dana ë ), 69 , Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 74–5 , 163, fi gs. 33–4 Attic red-fi gure lekythos (Theseus and Triton, 100 Ariadne), 69 , 76 , 143, fi g. 35 Trojan Horse, 95 , 103–4 , 144 , 154, fi gs. 7, 52 Tarhunt, 19–20, fi g. 9 Twain, Mark, 100 Tasso, Torquato, La Gerusalemme Tyndareus, 99 liberate , 88 Typhon, 7 Telemachos, 137 Tyrannicides , 31, fi g. 17

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Uccello, Paolo, St. George and the Dragon , Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks: 196–7, plate XXXI medieval cameo (Apollo and Daphne), Uranus, 7–9 40–1, fi g. 24 ; sardonyx cameo (Heracles Ursa, 66 and the Nemean Lion), 37, plate II Usm û , 21 Waterhouse, John William: Ariadne, 106 ; Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus, 187–9, Valletta, Giuseppe, 52 plate XXIX ; Hylas and the Nymphs , 92 ; vases, 32 , 36 , 39 , 51–3 , 57 , 92 , 95 , 100–2 , Siren , 92–3 ; Ulysses and the Sirens , 189, 104–5 , 109 , 122 , 124 , 126–7 , 144 , plate XXI 163–4 , 169 , 172–3 , 184 , 193 , 202–3 , Wedgewood, Josiah, 52 , 124 205 , 209 Weyden, Rogier van der, St. George and the Vatican City. See Rome Dragon, 197 Vel á zquez, Diego: Fable of Arachne , 138 ; Winckelmann, Johann, Geschichte der Kunst Forge of Vulcan , 119 ; Venus and Cupid, 91, des Altertums, 52 , 55 , 147 , 151 plate X Wonder Woman, 156 Venice, San Marco treasury, glass bowl, 72 , Wood, Robert, An Essay on the Original Genius 78, fi g. 37 and Writings of Homer , 133 Vermeer, Jan, Diana and Her Companions, 119 Wtewael, Joachim: Jupiter and Danaë , 167–8 , Veronese, Paolo, Rape of Europa , 113 173, plate XXII ; Mars and Venus Surprised Versacci clothing “Medusa” logo, 153–4 by Vulcan , 137 , 167–8, plate XXVI Vesalius, Andreas, De humani corporis fabrica , 146–7 Xerxes, 174 Vesuvius, Mount, 55 , 175 Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: Gemma Yasilikaya (Turkey), Hittite rock relief, Augustea , 134–5 ; Roman mosaic from 8, fi g. 1 Loigersfelder (Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur), 109, fi g. 54 Zephyrus, 49 Virgil: authority of, 59–60 , 63 , 68 ; Aeneid, Zeugma mosaics, 55 57 , 144–6 , 183–5 ; Eclogues , 196 ; Georgics , Zeus, 5 , 7–9 , 12–13 , 19 , 42 , 55 , 65–6 , 68 , 32 , 157 99–102 , 105 , 108 , 111 , 114 , 116 , 120–1 , Virgin Mary, 162 , 164 , 168 , 172 130 , 134–5 , 138 , 143 , 156 , 162–72 , 177 , Vivenzio, Nicola, 52 202–3 , 211, fi g. 10, plate XXII Voragine, Jacobus de, Legenda aurea , 196 Zidanta, 12–13 zodiac, 63 , 65 Warsaw, National Museum, Tabula Iliacae Zoroaster, 10 (Circe and Odysseus), 110–11 , 183, Zurbar á n, Francisco de, Labors of fi g. 55 Hercules , 110