1031NOTThetisPeleus_Huxley-Jones

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Ovid Met. 10.1-84
Apollodorus Libr. 3.2.2

T.B. Huxley Jones, "The Joy of Life," ___

Bronze fountain depicting multiple figures in water against a backdrop of green trees and a red double-decker bus

Once thought to be a compelling test-case for restrictive definitions of reception, this sculpture may draw upon iconography of Peleus and Thetis.

Neither Zeus nor Poseidon would be lured by Thetis' beauty, because of the Promethean secret that her son would outstrip his father. Thus Peleus, the argonaut, was awarded her hand. But she, striving to avoid his embrace, changed her shape into fire, then water, and various beasts. His tight embrace led eventually to her acquiescence.

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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