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Classical Myths in the Arts, Literature and Music. Surveys the use of Greek and Roman myth in Western arts, including literature, painting, sculpture and music. The Greek Sagas and Heroes. 18 Monstrous Females and Female Monsters. 21 The Mycenaean Saga - the House of Atreus. 22 The Theban Saga - King Oedipus. 26 Jason, Medea and the Argonauts. 27 Poseidon and the Sea Deities. Overview of Classical Greek History.
Medusa - Peter Paul Rubens. Historically, before ancient Greece, Medusa was worshipped by the Libyan Amazons as a Serpent -Goddess, and associated with the destroyer aspect Anath.
Gallery of the Gods - a quick look. Was a goddess of childbirth, like her mother, Hera, and Artemis. She became the wife of Heracles. HEPHAESTUS, APHRODITE, AND ARES. The wife of Hephaestus was APHRODITE. Theirs was an archetypal union between the lame intellectual and the sensuous beauty. Aphrodite turned to the handsome and whole ARES. HESTIA, GODDESS OF THE HEARTH AND ITS FIRE.
MAJOR DEITIES OF THE SEA. Became established as the mighty god of the seas. The stream of Ocean, and his mate Tethys, titans who produced thousands of children, the Oceanids. A pre-Olympian deity who became an attendant or son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, was an old man of the sea who could foretell the future and could also change his shape at will.