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Ovid Met.

Andrea Mantegna, Mars and Venus on Parnassus 1495 – 1497, oil

Classical painting depicting mythological figures in a landscape: Mars, Venus, Cupid, Mercury, and the Three Graces dancing

Perseus Andromeda atop Parnassus, with Hermes and Pegasus right foreground, and Muses dancing to Orpheus’s lyre.

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.