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Art lifted up her head and was seated on her throne, and said, All eyes shall see me, and all knees shall bow to me. (William Hazlitt, on the Louvre)

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab yo...

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listography GIVE MEMORIES
TERMS
FAVORITE LISTOGRAPHY MENTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTICES
MESSAGES
  • ZEUS/JUPITER (JOVE)
    • son of Cronus and Rhea
    • supreme deity; sky (weather) men, oracles,
    • married to Hera
    • iconography: lighting bolt, eagle, oak(?), bull, scepter, cornucopia, aegis, ram, and lion
    • children: Amphion, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Castor, Pollux Clytemnestra, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen, Hephaestus, Perseus, Minos, the Muses
  • HERA/JUNO
    • daughter of Cronus and Rhea
    • queen of the gods; special protectiveness of marriage and women, war; created the Milky Way
    • married to Zeus
    • iconography: "ox eyed," peacock, cow, crow, pomegranate
    • children: Ares, Eris?, Hebe, Eileithyia?, Hephaestus
  • POSEIDON/NEPTUNE
    • son of Cronus and Rhea
    • sea, water, horses, earthquakes, responsible for shipwrecks and drowning
    • married to Amphrite
    • iconography: trident
    • children: Polyphemus, Arion, Otus, Pegasus, Chrysaor
  • DEMETER/CERES
    • daughter of Cronus and Rhea
    • protectress of marriage, fertility, grain, agriculture; responsible for winter
    • iconography: sheaf of grain, a conical headdress, a scepter, a torch, and a sacrificial bowl.
    • children: Persephone
  • ARES/MARS
    • son of Zeus and Hera; or just Hera
    • war, patron of husbandmen, violence
    • seen with Phobos (Fear), Deimos (Terror), Eris (Strife) and Enyo (Horror)
    • children: Harmonia, Penthesilea, Hippolyte
  • HERMES/MERCURY
    • son of Zeus and Maia (a Pleiades)
    • messenger, boundaries, science, commerce, patron of travellers, rogues, vagabonds, thieves, bringing dead to the underworld (Psychopompos)
    • iconography: winged shoes, caduceus, travellers hat, cape,
    • children: Hermaphroditus, Tyche, Priapus, Autolycus, Myrtilus, Pan
  • HEPHAESTUS/VULCAN
    • kiln,
    • married to Aphrodite
    • children: Erichthonius
  • APHRODITE/VENUS
    • daughter of the sea and genitals of Uranus (after being castrated by his son, Cronus); daughter of Zeus and Dione
    • love, beauty, sexuality
    • married to Hephaestus
    • iconography: usually depicted naked, swan, mirror, apple, dove, myrrh, dolphin
    • children: Eros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, The Graces, Priapus, Aeneas
  • ATHENA/MINERVA
    • daughter of Zeus (technically Metis, too, an Oceanid, but Zeus swallowed Metis thereby becoming pregnant with Athena)
    • wisdom, patroness of the arts and trades (agriculture, navigation, spinning, weaving, and needlework) Athens
    • chaste/virgin but produced a son, Erichthonius, by attempted rape by Hephaestus. Half his semen fell on the ground, Gaia, so he is the offspring of all 3. He is half-snake and half-man and a mythological ancestor of the Athenians.
    • iconography: with Nike, shield with Medusa's face, aegis, owl, distaff, helmet
  • APOLLO/APOLLO
    • son of Leto and Zeus
    • archery, prophecy, music, healing, Muses (Apollo Musagetes), healing (Apollo Paeon), sun, youthful manhood, plague
    • iconography: laurel, lyre, bow and arrow, tripod, omphalos
    • children: Asclepius, Phaethon, Aristaeus, Orpheus
  • ARTEMIS/DIANA
    • daughter of Leto and Zeus
    • the hunt, transitions, assist in childbirth
    • chaste/virgin
    • iconography: the bow and arrow
  • HESTIA/VESTA
    • daughter of Cronus and Rhea
    • the hearth, altars, town halls and states; Rome
    • chaste/virgin
  • HADES/PLUTO
    • son of Cronus and Rhea
    • ruler of the Underworld
    • married to Persephone
    • iconography: crown, sceptor, key, dark haired,
    • children: The Furies (Erinyes), Makaria (goddess of a blessed death
  • DIONYSUS/BACCHUS
    • son of Zeus and Semele and Harmonia of Thebes
    • wine and drunken revelry
    • iconography: ivy wreathed
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