1. Polis and Hero: Theseus
Classical Mythology
Polis and Hero: Theseus

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H W Parke and D E W Wormell, The Delphic Oracle (Oxford: OUP, 1956) no. 476.
Aegeus, King of Athens, consulting the Delphic Oracle. Tondo of a cup attributed to the Kodrus Painter, ca Berlin,  Antikensammlung.

3. The Adventures of Theseus
Theseus’s rock at Troezen.

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Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais.

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Ariadne and Dionysus. Derveni krater, IV. Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum.

6. Geranos-dance ("crane dance"). Relief pithos from Tinos, VII.
François vase, details of Theseus’s Cretan adventure. Athenian volute krater by Cleitias and Ergotimus ca Florence, Museo archeologico.

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Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais.

8. Knossos, plan and aerial view.
Knossos, plan and aerial view.
Sir Arthur Evans. Portrait by Sir William Richmond, before Oxford, Ashmolean Museum.

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Bull-leaping fresco from palace of Knossos, XVII. Herakleion, Archaeological Museum.

10. Cercyon
The Sow of Crommyon
Procrustes
Sinis
Sciron
Bull of Marathon
The Deeds of Theseus. Athenian red-figured cup by the Kodros Painter, 430s. London, British Museum.

11. Sinis
The Sow of Crommyon, Phaea
Sciron
Cercyon

12. Procrustes
Bull of Marathon

13. Theseus attacking an Amazon
Theseus attacking an Amazon. Athenian red-figured dinos from the Group of Polygnotus, 440s.

14. Model of Temple of Zeus, Olympia, 470-457

15. Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs. Western pediment of the Temple of Zeus, 460s

16. DomainepeintureDénominationtableauAuteur/exécutantGUERIN Pierre Narcisse BaronTitrePHEDRE ET HIPPOLYTEPériode création/exécution1er quart 19e siècleLieu de conservationParis ; musée du Louvre département des PeinturesNuméro d'inventaireRF
Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Phèdre et Hippolyte, early XIX. Paris, musée du Louvre

17. Helen Mirren as Phèdre and Dominic Cooper as Hippolyte in Jean Racine’s Phèdre (1677), translated by Ted Hughes, at the National Theater, London, June 2009.

18. Above, an assembly of gods: Pan, Apollo, Athena, Aphrodite and Poseidon. Below, an old retainer watches as a Fury and a bull terrify Hippolytus' team so that he falls to his death. The scene was perhaps inspired by Euripides' Hippolytus.
Apulian pottery red-figured volute-krater by the Darius Painter, ca London, British Museum.

19. Wikipedia
Beazley archive
The Athenian Treasury at Delphi, early V. Metopes 1-8 show the deeds of Theseus; 9-14 an Amazonomachy, and the deeds of Heracles.