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OGCMA s.v. "Artemis"

Ross MacDonald, "Artemis", illustration on the flyleaf of the cover for Robert Graves' The Greek Myths (Penguin Deluxe Classics 2012).

MacDonald's cover art for this book is perhaps the most engaging element of the publication:
for the cover
for the front flyleaf
for the back flyleaf
for the back cover

The whole cover is discussed on Mythmatters, blogpost for 29 Oct 2013.

"For me the image of Artemis on the front flyleaf is the most clever of all the mythological vignettes here. Is it the virgin-huntress’s icy-blue skintone? Is it that pesky bustier, or the subliminally fertile crescent moon on her brow that attracts? MacDonald imagines Artemis in eye-glasses, like a co-ed from Barnard. She of the winsome smile and a quiver-full of lethal darts. Caveat Actaeon! The ingeniously bespectacled Artemis is the best moment in this cleverly divine apparatus." RTM

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.