Greek Mythology in Byzantine Art

 PREFACE Vll
PREFACE TO THE SECOND PRINTING Xl
INTRODUCTION 3
1. PSEUDO-NONNUS 6
A. THE DOCUMENTS 6
B. THE MINIATURES OF THE HOMILY FUNEBRIS iN L.4UDEM BAS/Lll M.1GNI 12
I. THE PELOPIDAE; 2. ELAPHEBOLUS, ORION AND ACTAEON; 3. THE SUBSTITUTED
HIND; 4. THE THESSALIAN CAVE; 5. GYGES' RING; 6. MIDAS;
7. THE ARROW OF ABARIS; 8. PEGASUS; 9. ALPHEUS; 10. THE SALAMANDER;
II. THE LYDIAN CHARIOT; 12. ORESTES AND PYLADES; 13. THE MOLIONIDESj
14. THE LABYRINTH; IS. MINOS AND RHADAMAr\THYS; 16. CADIZ;
17. THE HORSE THAT BROKE THE BOND; 18. THE GIANTS; 19. THE TWO
THEBES AND BABYLON; 20. THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS OF CARlA AND THE
COLOSSUS OF RHODES.
C. THE MINIATURES OF THE HOMILY IN SANCTA LUMINA
I. THE BIRTH OF ZEUS; 2. RHEA; 3. PERSEPHONE; 4. DIONYSUS; 5. THE
HEAD OF ZEUS; 6. APHRODITE; 7. THE PHALLI OF DIONYSUS; 8. THE SLAYING
OF STRANGERS BY THE TAURIANSj 9. THE SCOURGES OF THE LACONIANSj
10. TANTALUS AND PELOPS; II. HECATE; 12. TROPHONIUS; 13. AND IS.
THE DODONAEAN OAK AND THE CASTALIAN SPRING; 14. THE DELPHIAN TRIPOD;
16. THE MAGI; 17. THE CHALDEANS; 18. THE THRACIANS; 19.
MITHRAS; 20. OSIRIS; 21. ISIS; 22. THE MENDESIAN GOAT; 23. APIS; 24. THE
NILE; 25. THE WILD CREATURES AND REPTILES VENERATED BY THE EGYPTIANS.
D. THE CLASSICAL MODELS
E. THE DATE OF THE FIRST PSEUDO-NONNUS ILLUSTRATION
II. PSEUDO-OPPIAN
A. THE CODEX MARC. GR. 479 AND THE CHARACTER OF ITS MINIATURES
B. THE MYTHOLOGICAL AND OTHER NON-SCIENTIFIC MINIATURES
1. DEDICATION AND INVOCATIONj 2. ACHILLES AND XANTHUS; 3. THE ALEXANDER
ROMANCE; 4. PEGASUS; 5. BRIDAL SCEKE; 6. LACONIAN WOMEN
GIVING BIRTH; 7. CE:,\,TAUR; 8. PERSEUS; 9. THE BUCOLIC; 10. NAUMACHY;
I I. APAMEA-ON-THE-ORONTES; 12. HERACLES AND THE KINE OF GERYON;
13. THE POWER OF EROS; 14. PHINEUS AND THE HARPIES; IS. RHEA;
16. MAENAD; 17. THE SACK OF A CITY; I 8. JEALOUSY; I9. THE CHILDHOOD
OF DIONYSUS; 20. PENTHEUS.
XV 11
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93
96
C O N T E N T S
C. T H E C L A S S I F I C A T I O N OF T H E M Y T H O L O G I C A L M I N I A T U R E S 141
III. BYZANTINE IVORY CASKETS 1)2
A. T H E C H A R A C T E R OF T H E S O - C A L L E D ROSETTE C A S K E T S 1
B. C L A S S I F I C A T I O N OF T H E M Y T H O L O G I C A L S U B J E C T M A T T E R 154
1 . SCENES FROM A M Y T H O L O G I C A L H A N D B O O K 1 5 4
2 . A C Y C L E OF H E R A C L E S A D V E N T U R E S 157
3 . T H E C H I L D H O O D OF A C H I L L E S 1 6 £
4- A B A T T L E SCENE FROM T H E ILIAD 168
5 - I L L U S T R A T I O N S FROM E U R I P I D E A N TRAGEDIES I 6 G
a. The Iphigenia at Aulis 169
b. The Hippolytus Crowned 174
c. The Stheneboea (?) 177
6 . A DIONYS1AN C Y C L E 1 ~]QJ
7 . I L L U S T R A T I O N S OF B U C O L I C P O E T R Y ( ? ) 1 8 3
8. R E F L E C T I O N S OF T H E A L E X A N D E R R O M A N C E 186
IV. EPILOGUE 189
A. T H E C O N T R I B U T I O N TO C L A S S I C A L BOOK. I L L U M I N A T I O N 189
B. T H E C O N T R I B U T I O N TO T H E M A C E D O N I A N RENAISSANCE 198
INDEX 209
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