What was the significance of all these ferocious supernatural beasts? Fantastical animals were already part of the repertoire of Aegean craftsmen in prehistory, a millennium before the high point of the classical age in Athens in the Fifth Century BC. Lots of them were on show recently in New York, decorating all sorts of objects in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age. When we consider Greek art, we tend to envisage marble statues of Olympian gods – but gorgons, griffins, centaurs and sphinxes are actually just as common. One of the most intriguing aspects of ancient Greek art is its glut of fantastical creatures. And nowhere is this more visible than in their art. Their society was shaped by strange and primal forces as much as the guiding light of reason. But it would be a mistake to imagine them as exclusively rational. After all, they invented democracy, philosophy and drama. ISBN 0-19-814169-6.What do you think about when you hear the words ‘ancient Greece’? The conventional view is that the ancient Greeks provided the bedrock for Western civilisation. (1966), Hesiod: Theogony, Oxford University Press. Online version at Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997. Fragments, Edited and translated by William H. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press London, William Heinemann Ltd. Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S.W., Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia, Loeb Classical Library, No. Larson, Jennifer, "Greek Nymphs : Myth, Cult, Lore", Oxford University Press (US).Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360. Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J.Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press London, William Heinemann Ltd. Hesiod Works and Days, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G.Caldwell, Richard, Hesiod's Theogony, Focus Publishing/R.Greek Religion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollonius Rhodius: the Argonautica, translated by Robert Cooper Seaton, W.^ Callimachus, Hymn 4-To Delos 79–85 Hesiod, Theogony 187 Larson, p.9, "It is unclear what exactly the relation is between the Melian nymphs, the ash trees with which they are closely associated, and human beings, who may have originated from one or the other of these". Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1641–1642, which makes it simply "ash-trees". However Proclus thought it meant ash-tree nymphs (see Evelyn-White's note Larson, p.
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