Transcript Classical Mythology

Classical
Mythology
The House of Laius
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oedipus Rex (Edipo re), 1967
Aerial view of the Acropolis in Athens with the theater of Dionysus in the foreground. Aerial
photograph by Hans Rupprecht Goette from an exhibition at the Getty Villa, Malibu, 2010-11.
Oedipus Rex in the Lego Theater of Dionysus. From an exhibition at the New
Acropolis Museum, 2014-2015.
Louis Bouwmeester as Oedipus in a Dutch production
of Oedipus the King, ca 1896.
The return of Persephone. Attic red-figure bell-krater
attributed to the Persephone Painter, ca 440. New
York, Metropolitan Museum.
Early Italian fibula.
Œdipe à Colone. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, ca 1791.
A Classical Landscape with a View of Colonus,
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1791. Auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2008
Sigmund Freud (18561939). Bookplate, logo
of the Internationaler
Psychoanalytischer
Verlag, 1922, cartoon
from the New York
Review of Books
The Death of Socrates. Jacques-Louis David,
1787. New York: Metropolitan Museum
Vitruvian Man, drawing by
Leonardo da Vinci, ca 1492.
Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia.
The Gospel at Colonus, book by Lee Breuer, music by Bob
Telson, 1983
Seven against Thebes. Athenian red-figure hydria by the Early
Mannerist. Parthenopaios is named. Shigaraki, Miho Museum.
Antigone brought before Creon. South Italian nestoris by the
Dolon painter, ca 380. London, British Museum.
A typical nestoris from the Louvre.
Patrick O’Kane as Kreon and Juliette Binoche as Antigone at the Barbican, London.
Photograph by Tristram Kenton for the Guardian, 5 March 2015.
Kate Tempest: “I don’t want to be famous or anything like that.” Photograph: David
Levene/Guardian, 23 Oct 2014.