Tragedy for Agamemnon, who is murdered by his wife, and his son Orestes murdered her (his mother), her lover, their daughter and son.
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Tragedy for the great bard, as his attempt to rescue Eurydice from the Underworld fails, and he is later torn limb from limb by furious Maenads.
The greatest bard, musician and poet in classical Greek myth. Paintings from Paulus Potter, Poussin, Jan Brueghel the Elder and others.
Hamlet, including the first visualisation of Ophelia’s death; Christopher Columbus, Medea about to kill her sons, and shipwreck survivors in a small boat.
Normally drawn by 2-4 horses, you can sometimes identify deities by the creatures shown towing their chariot, from black horses to domestic cats.
Odysseus meets with his son Telemachus, is almost revealed by his old nurse, then kills all the suitors before revealing himself to Penelope.
How the Horn of Plenty came about, who filled it, how it often appears with the four elements, and some more complex mythological associations.
Cadmus’ daughter Semele is destroyed by Jupiter’s lightning, but her infant grows into Bacchus. Pentheus is then torn apart by bacchantes, and Cadmus and his wife are turned into snakes.
Cadmus, Europa’s brother, kills a dragon and sows its teeth to grow into the men who help him build Thebes. But his grandson Actaeon is killed when he catches Diana bathing.
Is that the god Cupid, a Cupid, a putto, an amorino, or a cherub? The differences explained and illustrated in paintings by Botticelli, Titian, Raphael and others.
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