11/04/2017

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Sappho in Athens Museum

Sappho and Alcaeus in Berlin

Sappho in the Capitoline Museum Roman coin with Sappho

11/04/2017

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Sappho by Francis Coates Jones

Sappho and Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

11/04/2017

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Aethra and Theseus (Euripides’s Supplices)

Alcestis from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (Play by Euripides)

Lord Leighton Heracles Wrestling Death over Alcestis

Alcmene mother of Heracles (she appears in Euripides’s Heraclidae)

11/04/2017

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Alcmene with Heracles on Mount Olympus

Andromeda ready for sacrifice (lost plays by Sophocles and Euripides and the Biblioteca)

Lord Leighton Andromeda about to be rescued by Perseus

Antigone presented to Creon

11/04/2017

5

Charles Jalabert The Plague at Thebes (Sophocles’s Oedipus)

Ariadne with Dionysus (Hesiod and the Biblioteca)

11/04/2017

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Titian Bacchus and Ariadne Heracles Wrestling Achelous for Deianeira

Deianeira with Heracles and their oldest son Hyllus (Sophocles’s Trachiniae, Euripides’s Heraclidae, the Biblioteca)

Heracles rescuing Deianeira from the centaur Eurytion

Heracles rescuing Deianeira from Nessos

11/04/2017

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Deianeira by Evelyn de Morgan

Hippodamia with Pelops and Myrtilos

Medea and the Rejuvenated Ram

11/04/2017

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Medea killing her sons (Euripides)

Medea in Roman copy of Greek painting and by Frederick Sandys

Medea by Waterhouse and Delacroix Medea by Alfonse Mucha and Evelyn de Morgan

Medea portrayed by Maria Callas in Pasolini’s 1969 film

Heracles and Omphale

11/04/2017

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Pandora (Hesiod’s Works and Days)

Pandora by William Waterhouse