CSTS 209: Classical Mythology (HC)

Classics and Comics is the first book to explore the engagement of classics with the epitome of modern popular literature, the comic book. The volume collects sixteen articles, all specially commissioned for this volume, that look at how classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience.

In part this indexes and discusses mythological figures as symbols of qualities and concepts. Use the index for mythological figures pages 975-988 to find the sections where a character is discussed and where art works are listed and sometimes illustrated.

"With more than 400 illustrations, Gods and Heroes in Art is a guide both to the classical world and to the masterpieces of European painting and sculpture."--BOOK JACKET. Browse for images of mythological figures from European art mostly from the Renaissance to the present. More images can be found in the book Gods and Heroes of Classical Antiquity (in the Tripod catalog).

This richly illustrated book examines the legacy of Greek mythology in Western art from the classical era to the present. It reveals the range and variety with which individual Greek myths, motifs, and characters have been treated throughout the history of the visual arts in the West. Tracing the emergence, survival, and transformation of key mythological figures and motifs from ancient Greece through the modern era, it explores the enduring importance of such myths for artists and viewers in their own time and over the millennia that followed.

Iain Calderwood presents art from the Middle Ages and the modern age era with an emphasis on gender. See additional illustrated entries cited at the end.

In addition to the 8 print volumes for the Lexicon, the LIMC Foundation puts much material related to iconography online. The foundation website serves as a complement to the print volumes with detail on objects and recent scholarship.

The Beazley Archive at the University of Oxford maintains this extensive database (over 130, 000 images) on ancient Greek vases. It is searchable by theme, type of vase, inscription, painter, technique (e.g., white ground), and collection.
The Beazley Archive's Classical Art Research Centre has many other resources included the digitized Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum and a merged database that draws on 22 separate files including the Pottery Database.

In 1977, Romare Bearden created a cycle of 20 collages and watercolors based on the Homeric epic. Rich in symbolism and allegorical content, Bearden’s “Odysseus Series” created artistic connections between African-American culture. and classical myth.

Rich collection of art images, literature, and information about Greek gods and heroes. There is extensive treatment of individual divinities and mortals.

Hirst created myth-inspired sculptures that were "found" in an ancient shipwreck. See the list of works (pp. 318-327) to find art representing Cronos, Medusa, Proteus, the Hydra, Arachne (titled "The Metamorphosis") and others.