Myth Collection (#72)

Arthurs Round Table
Arthur and his elite knights dine at the Round Table

Arthur M. Guinevere
Arthur weds Guinevere

Arthur Defends Wales
Arthur defends his Welsh homeland against its enemies

Shiva En Famille
Shiva, a very mixed-up character, is a ruthless destroyer, but also a devoted family man, here with wife Parvati and their children Skanda and Ganesha

Surya the Sun-God
The Hindu deity Surya is an archetypal sun-god, traversing the heavens in his chariot and overpowering his enemies with the heat of his rays

Rama in Lanka
Rama, Hindu divine hero, is able to successfully invade the island of Lanka because friendly apes build a bridge for him from the mainland

Odin Consults a Wolwa
Odin consults a wolwa, a seeress who can tell him his destiny

Loki as a Serpent
Loki, the trickster, in the form of a serpent

Thor and Skrymir
Thor spends the night in a strange building which turns out to be the glove of the giant Skrymir

Thor and Hymir go fishing for the World Serpent : they catch it, but Hymir, terrified, cuts the line, for which Thor, not unreasonably, kills him

VALKYRIES
Valkyries = Choosers of the Slain : warrior handmaidens of Odin, they select warriors who are destined to die, and escort them to Valhalla where they feast for evermore

Wotan, Balders Horse
Wotan heals Balders horse

Aesop - Woodcutter
The fable of The Woodcutter and the Axe, from a collection published in 1485

Mars, Vanus, Cupid
Mars, Venus and Cupid enjoy the sunshine

Myth : Fama
The Roman goddess of fame distributes her favours to those who deserve it

Zeus (Bon. Salesa)
Zeus (Bon.Salesa)

Tristram & Iseult
The lovers rapture

CASSANDRA, daughter of Priam & Hecuba, Trojan royals : prophetess, but when Apollo failed to ravish her, he fixed it that no one would believe her correct prophecies

THEMIS
Greek/Roman deity, protectress of hospitality and of the oppressed, possessed oracular powers

Jupiter Dodoneus
ZEUS / JUPITER DODONEUS whose oracle at Dodona was the oldest in Greece : the prophecies came from the sacred oak, which is depicted here as having human form

Iliad / Hecuba
The wife of Herakles, who hanged herself in remorse after sending a poisoned shirt to the husband of Iole, to punish her for making love with Herakles

HERAKLES
Greek hero, son of Zeus and Alkmene, the worlds strongest man, which he needed to be to perform the Twelve Labours for King Eurystheus, as a penance for crimes he did while mad

Iliad / Priam
King of Troy, who, according to the text, reigned in 1237 BC

Apollo & Serpent
standing beside a tree trunk round which, whether he realises it or not, a snake is coiled

Apollo with Lyre
holding a lyre, with long hair and fig-leaf

Apollo with Bow
holding a bow, with cloak and fig-leaf

Arthur / Winning of Olwen
THE WINNING OF OLWEN Kilwch arrives at the gate of Arthurs palace

Arthur / Lady of Fountain
THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN How Owen was found by the lake

Fairies Abduct Wife
Fairies abduct a farmers wife (from the Irish myth " The Fairy Nurse" )

Melenaus (Panofka)
The meeting between Menelaus and Helen after Helens affair with Paris

Merlin / Spellbound / Ryland
Merlin held spellbound by Vivien

Gareth&red Knight / Ryland
Sir Gareth and the Knight of the Red Lawns

Patroclus Body / Hector
Hector with the body of Patroclus

Ajax Fights Hector
Ajax fights Hector

Trojan Horse (Lambalt)

Siege of Troy (Theatre)
Troy is taken

Siege of Troy (Lefevre)

The Anger of Achilles
The anger of Achilles

Myth / Achilles (Bartoli)
Achilles drags Hectors corpse around the walls of Troy

Theseus Lifts Stone / Ford
Theseus, watched by his mother, Aethra, lifts the boulder under which his father, Aegeus, had hidden a beautiful sword years before

King Athamas & Nephele
King Athamas falls in love with the beautiful cloud fairy Nephele and steals her clothes so that she cannot float away with her sisters. (Part of the Golden Fleece myth)

Odysseus and Nausicaa
The shipwrecked Odysseus meets Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous, while she is playing ball with her maidens on the shore

Paris & Oenone(Hj Ford)
Paris begs his estranged wife Oenone for forgiveness for having run away with Helen of Troy

Helen Points out Heroes
Helen points out the chief heroes in the Greek host to Priam

Young Odysseus & Boar
Young Odysseus fights a wild boar and gets the wound in his thigh

Racine / Orestes
ORESTES, the son of Agamemnon, king of Thebes, as presented by Jean Racine in his play Andromaque

Bee Pulling a Plough
A bee pulling a plough (from the Serbian myth " The Finest Liar in the World"

Dwarfs / Underground Work
A team of dwarf miners, the " underground workers" in action

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