Myths of Creation--Origins

Classical Mythology
Myths of Creation: Origins
Marduk fightin Tiamat. Impression of
a Babylonian cylinder seal.
Julie Newdoll, The
Second World was
Blue. From a
series based on
Navajo sand
painting.
The brothers Odin, Vili, and Vé
attack Ymir in an illustration of
the Prose Edda by Lorenz Frølich
(1820-1908).
Genealogical chart from Buxton.
Cf http://www.theoi.com/TreeHesiod.html
The Tellus Panel from the Ara Pacis. Rome, 9 BCE.
Castrazione del Cielo fatta da Saturno. Fresco by Giorgio Vasari, 1555. Sala
degli Elementi, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
Aphrodite Rising. Detail of the
Ludovisi Throne, ca. 460 BC. Rome,
National Museum.
The Birth of Venus. Sandro
Botticelli. 1483-1485. Florence,
Uffizi.
Saturn Devouring His Son.
Francisco Goya. 1819-1823.
Madrid, Prado.
Rhea Gives Cronus a Stone Disguised as the Infant Zeus.
Athenian red-figure pelike, attributed to the Nausicaä
Painter, 450s. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,.
The Olympians on the Parthenon Eastern Frieze, later 440s.
Hermes, Dionysus, Demeter, Ares,
Nike (or Iris), Hera, Zeus,
Athena, Hephaestus,
Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Eros
Elpenor, Odysseus, and Hermes
in Hades. Attic red-figure pilike
by the Lykaon Painter, ca 440.
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.
Gigantomachy on an Attic red-figure
pelike attributed to the Pronomos
Painter, ca 400. National Museum,
Athens
Zeus and Typhoeus. Stamp based on a
Black-figure hydria in Munich, ca 550
BC
Pergamum Altar, II. Pergamonmuseum, Berlin.
The cosmography of Homer and Hesiod.