Danaë1.0031_OrazioGentileschi

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ClCv241

Mastery

MythMatters

J. Paul Getty Museum site
OGCMA s.v. "Danae"

Classical Sources:

Homer Il. 14.319
Pindar Pyth. 12
Diod. Sic. Libr. 4.9
Vergil Aen. 7.371ff, 406-13
Horace C. 3.16
Apollodorus Library 2.2-4
Pliny HN 3.9.56
Hyginus Fab. 63, 155, 224
Lucian Dial. Marin. 12 "Doris and Thetis", 14 "Triton and Nereids"

Orazio Gentileschi, "Danaë and the Shower of Gold", c. 1621-1623, oil on canvas, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2016.6.

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.