0773ANCIENTOrpheus

0773ANCIENTOrpheus_Gantz

Ovid Met. 10.1-84
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2

Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth (Baltimore and London, 1993), 721 - 25, listing literary sources for Orpheus in early Greek myth.

Image at right: Beazley Archive cast of a metope from the Sikyonian Treasury at Delphi (560 BC), showing the Argonauts and the ship. Castor (or Pollux) is visible on horseback on the left, then Orpheus can be seen with a lyre perched on his left shoulder.

Two fragments of an ancient Greek relief carving, one with a horse, the other with two figures and a circular object

Ap. Rh. Argonautica 4.891-911

Simonides 567 PMG

Bacchylides 28

Aeschylus Ag. 1629 - 32, Bassarides

Euripides Bacchae 560 - 64, Alcestis 357-62

Plato, Symp. 179b-d

Ps. Eratosthenes Catast. 24

Moschos, Epitaph. Bion. 3.123-24

Hermesianax fr. 7 Pow

App. Verg. Culex 268 - 95

Vergil Georgics 4.453-505

Ovid Metamorphoses 10.1-85

Apollodorus Library 1.3.2

Hyginus Astrologia 2.7.3

Pausanias 9.30.5

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.
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