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Gilgamesh
Saturn
Prometheus
Medusa
Other Myths
Beowulf and Grendel

Saturn Eating His Children, Goya

unattributed

Pieter Paul Rubens: Prometheus Bound

1611-1612 Oil on canvas, 95 7/8" x 82 1/2" Philadelphia Museum of Art: The W.P. Wilstach Collection.  Reproduced with permission

The Creation of the first man (left) by Prometheus (right), attended by Athena (center). Notice the Goddess placing on the head of the man a butterfly, symbol of the Soul, to give him life. Felice Giani (Italy 1758-1823) 50,1 x 37,4 cm Muséée des beaux-arts du Canada

Prometheus: Piero di Cosimo

Gerhard Marck Prometheus Bound II bronze, cast 1948

Medusa

These are all ancient images of Medusa

Gorgon pediment c. 600-580 B.C.E. (Corfu: Temple of Artemis)

Medusa by Jean Delville (Belgian, 1867-1953)

Statue of Perseus. Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy

1804-08, Canova (1757-1822) (Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art)

Leonardo da Vinci, Medusa

This image is from "Ekphrasis and the Other" by W. J. T. Mitchell from PICTURE THEORY (p. 174) published by The University of Chicago Press, copyright 1994 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. This material may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of US copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that this entire notice, including copyright information, is carried and provided that the University of Chicago Press is notified and no fee is charged for access. Archiving, redistribution, or replication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires both the consent of the author and the University of Chicago Press.

The Baleful Head, Edward Burn-Jones, 1886-7
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Cellini, (1500-1571), (Florence: Loggia dei Lanzi)

The images to the bottom and top are ancient images.

The Head of Medusa, Carravaggio, Uffizi, Florence

Medusa (The Angry Wave) Lucian Levy-Dhurmer, 1897

Medusa, Temple of Didyma

The stalk of the sleeping Medusa Perseus, harpe in one hand, kibisis in the other, stalks the sleeping Medusa under the tutelage of Athena and Hermes. The bearded figure seated to the left may be king Akrisios who is later turned to stone. Nausicaa Painter (c. 450-440 BCE) Richmond, Virginia Museum 62.1.1

Perseus fleeing after slaying the Gorgon, Medusa Perseus, the hero of Argolis, makes off towards the left, his head turned to look at the decapitated body of the Gorgon which sinks to the ground behind him. In his left hand he carries the "harpe" with which he has just killed her while in a wallet round his neck he bears her severed head.

The Birth of Pegasus & Chrysaor from the Blood of Medusa, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1876-85

An illustration of monsters from Buffon

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Beowulf and Grendel