AthenaBirth2.0010_O'Connor

AthenaBirth2.0010_O'Connor

olympiansrule.com
Hesiod Theogony886-91, 924-29
Pindar Oly. 7.35-38
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.6
Lucian Dial. Deorum 12 & 13
Philostratus Imagines 27

George O'Connor, Self Portrait which appears in the rear endpiece of each volume of the graphic narrative series The Olympians (New York: First Second/Neal Porter Books), 2010—

The back-cover blurb states that "George O'Connor is a New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator ... [who] now has brought his attention to Olympians, an ongoing series retelling the classic Greek myths in comics form. In addition to his graphic novel career, Mr. O'Connor has published several children's picture books, including the New York Times-bestselling Kapow!, Sally and the Some-Thing, and Uncle Bigfoot. Visit his blog at geooco.blogspot.com."

The artist is clearly creating from famous ancient depictions such as East Pediment of the Parthenon (mostly lost), a 6th-century Athenian black-figure amphora (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, below), at Munich, and elsewhere.

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, 1400 – 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.