1. Atlas and Prometheus. Archesilas II Painter. Black-figure cup, Interior. Greek, 560–550 BCE (Photo Scala, Florence)
2. Prometheus. Scott Eaton.
Digital sculpture, 2006 CE
(Scott Eaton/www.scott-eaton.com)
3. The Fall of Phaethon.
Michelangelo. Pencil drawing, 1533 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/British Museum,
London UK)
4. The Mutilation of Uranus by
Saturn (Cronus). Giorgio Vasari. Oil painting, 1556 CE
(Photo Scala, Florence)
5. Saturn Devouring One of His
Children. Peter Paul Rubens. Oil Painting, 1636–1638 CE
(Scala, Florence/BPK,
Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte)
6. The Three Fates. Francesco
Salviati. Oil painting, 16th century CE
(Photo Scala, Florence—courtesy of the
Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
7. The Great Altar of Pergamum.
North Frieze Detail. Marble relief sculpture. Greek, 2nd century CE
(akg-images)
8. Triumph of Neptune (Poseidon).
Mosaic floor from Tunis. Roman, 3rd century CE
(The Bridgeman Art
Library/Giraudon/Musée Archeologique, Sousse, Tunisia.)
9. Athena. Bronze sculpture,
detail. Greek, 350–340 bc
(The Art Archive/Archaeological Museum Piraeus/Gianni
Dagli Orti)
10. The Punishment of Ixion.
Wall painting, from Pompeii. Roman, 1st century CE
(Photo Scala,
Florence/Fotografica Foglia—courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturai)
11. The Return of Persephone.
Sir Frederic Leighton. Oil painting, 1891 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Leeds
Museums and Galleries (City Art Gallery) U.K.)
12. The Birth of Venus
(Aphrodite). Sandro Botticelli. Tempera painting, 1486 CE
(The Art
Archive/Galleria degli Uffizi Florence/Collection Dagli Orti)
13. Pygmalion and Galatea.
Jean-Léon Gérome. Oil painting, 1890 CE
(Photo Scala, Florence/Art Resource/Image
copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
14. The Three Graces. Antonio
canova. Marble sculpture group, 1812–1816 CE
(The Art Archive/Victoria and Albert
Museum London/V&A Images)
15. Venus and Mars (Ares).
Sandro Botticelli. Tempera painting, 1485 CE
(The Art Archive/National Gallery
London/Eileen Tweedy)
16. The Return of Hephaestus.
Polychrome vase, side A. Greek, c. 530 BCE
(akg-images/Erich Lessing)
17. The Flaying of Marsyas.
Titian. Oil painting, c. 1576 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Archbishop’s Gallery,
Kromeriz/© Mondadori Electa)
18. Apollo. Pistoxenos Painter
or Euphronius. Red-figure cup, interior. Greek, 500–450 BCE
(Photo Scala,
Florence)
19. Orpheus. Jean Delville. Oil
painting, 1893 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon/© DACS/Private
Collection)
20. The Death of Actaeon.
Titian. Oil painting, 1559–75 CE
(The Art Archive/National Gallery London/John
Webb)
21. Apollo confronts Hermes and
Maia. Black-figure vase. Greek, c. 530 BCE
(The Art Archive/Musée du Louvre/Gianni
Dagli Orti)
22. Abduction of Gaymede.
Terracotta sculpture group. Greek, c. 470 BCE
(The Art Archive/Olympia Museum
Greece/Gianni Dagli Orti)
23. Deucalion and Pyrrha. Peter
Paul Rubens. Oil sketch, c. 1636 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Prado, Madrid,
Spain/Photo © Boltin Picture Library)
24. The Cliff of Sisyphus. Alix
Marquet. Sculpture. 1930 CE
(Topfoto/Roger-Viollet)
25. Phrixus and the Ram.
Red-figure vase. Greek, c. 460 BCE.
(The Art Archive/National Archaeological
Museum Athens/Gianni Dagli Orti)
26. The Embarkation of the
Argonauts. Lorenzo Costa. Tempera painting ,1480–1535 CE
(The Art Archive/Civic
Museum Padua Italy/Gianni Dagli Orti)
27. Jason and Medea. J. W.
Waterhouse. Oil painting, 1907 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Photo © The Maas
Gallery, London/Private Collection)
28. The Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Marble relief sculpture. Roman, 3rd century CE
(The Art Archive/Museo Capitolino
Rome/Gianni Dagli Orti)
29. Mercury (Hermes) Slays
Argus. Engraving, 19th century CE
(Mary Evans Picture Library)
30. Danae. Gustav Klimt. Oil
painting, 1907–1908 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Galerie Wurthle, Vienna,
Austria)
31. Perseus and the Graeae.
Edward Burne-Jones. Gouache painting, 1892 CE
(The Bridgeman Art
Library/Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire, UK)
32. Medusa. Caravaggio. Oil
painting ,1597 CE
(Photo Scala, Florence—courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att.
Culturali)
33. Perseus and Andromeda.
Charles-Antoine Coypel. Oil painting, 1726–1727 CE
(The Bridgeman Art
Library/Louvre, Paris, France/Peter Willi)
34. Bellerophon, Pegasus and the
Chimera. Boreads Painter. Black-figure cup, interior. Greek, 570–565 BCE
(Lakonian
Black-Figures Kylix, terracotta, attributed to Boreads Painter, 570–565 bc Sparta,
Greece; lakonia, Europe/The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu,
California)
35. The Rape of Europa. Martin
de Vos. Oil painting, c. 1590 CE
(The Art Archive/Fine Art Museum
Bilbao/Collection Dagli Orti)
36. Dionysus Astride a Panther.
Pebble mosaic floor, from Pella. Greek, 400–360 BCE
(Photo Scala, Florence/Photo
Spectrum/Heritage Images)
37. Oedipus and the Sphinx.
J-A.D. Ingres. Oil painting, 1808 CE
(The Art Archive/Musée du Louvre
Paris/Collection Dagli Orti)
38. Seven Against Thebes. Marble relief sculpture. Etruscan, 6th–5th century BCE(Photo Scala, Florence)
39. The Banquet of the Gods.
Hans Herman and Valentin Curio. Print on paper, 1521 CE
(© The Trustees of the
British Museum)
40. Pelops and Hippodamia. Print
on paper, 19th century CE
(Mary Evans Picture Library)
41. Orestes and Electra.
Stephanus, pupil of Pasiteles. Marble sculpture group. Roman, 1st century BCE–1st
century CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Alinari/Museo Archaeologico Nazionale
Naples, Italy)
42. The Three Duaghters of
Cecrops Discovering Erichthonius. Solomon de Bray. Oil painting, 17th century CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Johnny van Haeften Gallery, London, UK)
43. Theseus and Aethra. Laurent
de la Hyre. Oil painting. 1835–1840 CE
(Photo Scala, Florence/The Museum of Fine
Arts Budapest)
44. The Deeds of Theseus. Codrus
painter. Red-figure cup, interior. Greek, 440–430 bc
(akg-images/Erich
Lessing)
45. The Workshop of Daedelus.
Wall painting, from Pompeii. Roman, 1st century CE
(The Art Archive/Gianni Dagli
Orti)
46. The Death of Icarus. Maso da
San Friano. Oil painting, 1570–2 CE
(The Art Archive/Palazzo Vecchio
Florence/Collection Dagli Orti)
47. Theseus Slays the Minotaur.
Dokimasia Painter. Red-figure cup interior. Greek, c. 470 BCE
(su concessione
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. © Soprintendenza per I Beni Archeologici
della Toscana)
48. Diana (Artemis) Huntress.
Orazio Gentileschi. Oil painting, c. 1635
(Scala, Florence/White Images)
49. Death of Hippolytus. Peter
Paul Rubens. Oil painting. 1611-13 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Fitzwilliam
Museum, University of Cambridge)
50. The Fight Between the
Lapiths and the Centaurs. Pietro di Cosimo. Oil painting, 1500–1515 CE
(The Art
Archive/National Gallery London/Eileen Tweedy)
51. Chariot of the Sun.
Red-figure plate. South Italian, 4th century bc
(Corbis/Araldo de Luca)
52. Baby Heracles and the
Vipers. Marble sculpture group. Roman, 1st century CE
(Corbis/Araldo de Luca)
53. Hercules (Heracles) and the
Hydra. Antonio del Pollaiolo. Tempera painting, c. 1470 CE
(The Art
Archive/Galleria degli Uffizi Florence/Superstock)
54. Hercules Wrestling with
Death for the Body of Alcestic. Sir Frederic Leighton. Oil painting, 1869–1871 CE
(Photo Scala, Florence/Art Resource NY/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)
55. Diomedes Devoured by His
Horses. Gustav Moreau. Oil painting, 1865 CE
(The Art Archive/Musée des Beaux Arts
Rouen/Gianni Dagli Orti)
56. Heracles in the Cup of
Helios. Douris. Red-figure cup, interior. Greek, 500-450 BCE
(TopFoto/© 2006
Alinari)
57. Nessus, Deianeira, and
Hercules. David Vinkeboons. Oil painting, 1612 CE
(The Bridgeman Art
Library/Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)
58. The Death of Hercules.
Bernard Picart. Engraving, 1731 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/The Stapleton
Collection/Private Collection)
59. Peleus Wrestling Thetis.
Red-figure cup, interior. Greek, c. 430 BCE
(Scala, Florence/BPK, Bildagentur fuer
Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin)
60. The Judgment of Paris.
Marcantonio Raimondi (after Raphael). Engraving , 1510-20 CE
(Photo Scala,
Florence/Art Resource/Museum of Art/Image copyright Metropolitan Museum of Art)
61. Leda and the Swan.
Bartolomeo Ammannati. Marble sculpture, mid-16th century CE
(Photo Scala,
Florence/courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturai)
62. Cheiron Instructs Young
Achilles. Wall painting, from Herculaneum. Roman, 1st century CE
(The Art
Archive/Musée Archéologique Naples/Gianni Dagli Orti)
63. The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia.
Wall painting, from Pompeii. Roman, 1st century CE
(Photo Scala, Florence/Luciano
Romano—courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
64. Jupiter (Zeus) and Thetis.
J-A.D. Ingres. Oil painting, 1811 CE
(The Art Archive/Musée Granet
Aix-en-Provence/Gianni Dagli Orti)
65. The Love of Helen and Paris.
Jacques-Louis David. Oil painting, 1789 CE
(The Art Archive/Musée du Louvre
Paris/Gianni Dagli Orti)
66. Diomedes Wounding Aphrodite.
W.H.A. Fitger. Oil painting, c. 1905 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/© Christie’s
Images)
67. Iris. Guy Head. Oil
painting, 1793 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Roy Miles Fine Paintings)
68. Hera and Zeus. Stone relief
sculpture, Temple “E”, from Selinunte. Greek, 470-460 BC
(The Art
Archive/Archaeological Museum Palermo/Gianni Dagli Orti)
69. Achilles tends the Wounded
Patroclus. Sosias Painter. Red-figure cup, interior. Greek, c. 500 BCE
(Photo
Scala, Florence/BPK, Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin)
70. Sleep and Death with the
Body of Sarpedon. Bronze handle. Etruscan, 400-375 BCE
(© The Cleveland Museum of
Art. Purchase from the J.H.Wade Fund 1945. 13)
71. Automedon with the Horses of
Achilles. Henri Renault. Oil painting, 1868 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/Private
Collection)
72. Achilles Drags the Body of
Hector. The Antipope Group. Black-figure vase, side A. Greek, 520-510 BCE
(The
Bridgeman Art Library/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA/William Francis
Warden Fund)
73. Priam in the Tent of
Achilles. Group of E. Black-figure vase, side A. Greek, c. 550 BCE
(The Bridgeman
Art Library/Antikensammlung, Kassel, Germany/© Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel)
74. The Suicide of Ajax.
Exekias. Black-figure vase, detail side A. Greek, c. 540 BCE
(Mary Evans Picture
Library/AISA Media)
75. Ulysses and Neoptolemus
Taking Hercules’ Arrows from Philoctetes. Francois-Xavier Fabré. Oil painting, 1800 CE
(© Musée Fabre de Montpellier Agglomération—photography by Frédéric Jaulmes)
76. Laocoön and his Sons.
Polydorus of Rhodes. Marble sculpture group. Greek, 1st century BCE
(akg-images/Album/Oronoz)
77. Ajax and Cassandra. S.J.
Solomon. Oil painting, 1886 CE
(Collection: Art Gallery of Ballarat)
78. Feast of the Nymph Calypso
for Odysseus. Jan Breughel the Elder. Oil painting, 1616 CE
(The Bridgeman Art
Library/Penelope Unraveling Her Web, oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby/Privart
Collection/Photo © Christie’s Images/Private Collection)
79. Telemachus and Nestor.
Red-figure vase, detail. Greek, c.350 BCE
(akg-images/Erich Lessing)
80. Helen Recognizing
Telemachus, Odysseus’ Son. Jean-Jacques Lagrenée. Oil painting, 1795 CE
(Scala,
Florence/Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
81. Odysseus Meets Nausikaa.
Aison. Red-figure box-lid. Greek, c.420 BCE
(Photograph © 2011 Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston/Henry Lillie Pierce Fund, 04. 18a-b.)
82. Odysseus Blinds Polyphemus.
Polyphemus Painter. Proto-Attic vase, neck detail. Greek, 675-650 BCE
(The Art
Archive/Eleusis Museum Greece/Gianni Dagli Orti)
83. Odysseus Escapes Polyphemus’
Cave. Marble sculpture. Roman, 2nd century BCE–1st century CE
(The Bridgeman Art
Library/Alinari/Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome, Italy)
84. Circe Transforming the
Companions of Ulysses (Odysseus). Jan van der Straet (Giovanni Stradano). Oil painting,
1570–72 CE
(The Art Archive/Palazzo Vecchio Florence/Collection Dagli Orti)
85. Hades and Persephone. Relief
plaque, from Locri Epizephyrii. South Italian, c. 460 BCE
(The Art Archive/Museo
Nazionale Reggio Calabria/Collection Dagli Orti)
86. Ulysses Conjures the Ghost
of Teiresias. Edmé Bouchardon. Crayon drawing on paper, 1762 CE
(The Art
Archive/Musée du Louvre Paris/Gianni Dagli Orti)
87. The Siren Vase. Siren
Painter. Red-figure vase, side A. Greek, 480–470 bc
(akg-images/Erich Lessing)
88. Odysseus’ Men Butcher the
Cattle of the Sun. Pellegrino Tibaldi. Fresco, from Palazzo Poggi, 1554–56 CE
(Photo Scala, Florence)
89. The Fight Between Ulysses
and Irus (Arnaeus). Lovis Corinth. Oil painting, 1903 CE
(akg-images/National
Gallery, Prague)
90. Odysseus and the Suitors.
Penelope Painter. Red-figure cup, side A. Greek c. 440 BCE
(Photo Scala,
Florence/BPK, Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin)
91. Penelope Awakened by
Eurycleia. Angelica Kauffmann. Oil painting, 1772 CE
(akg-images/Vorarlberger
Landesmuseum, Bregenz)
92. Odysseus and Penelope.
Francesco Primaticcio. Oil painting, 1563 CE
(Photography, Incorporated, Toledo
Museum of Art (Toledo, Ohio), purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of
Edward Drummond Libbey, 1964.60)
93. Pandora’s Box. Bernard
picart. Engraving, 1730 CE
(The Bridgeman Art Library/The Stapleton
Collection/Private Collection)