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Classical MythologyMyths of Creation: Humanity
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Prometheus with Minerva creating man. Detail of a child’s sarcophagus, III. Rome, Capitoline Museums (Palazzo Nuovo).
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Myrmidons
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Kadmos and the serpent at the spring of Ismene, attributed to the Horsemen Painter. Tondo of a Laconian black-figure cup, ca 550. Paris, Louvre.
Cadmus Sowing the Dragon's Teeth, illustration by Maxfield Parrish for A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1910.
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Diego Rivera, Creation of Man to illustrate an edition of the Popol Vuh, 1930.
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Golden Age, ca 1530. Munich, Alte Pinakothek
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Silver Age, ca 1530. London, National Gallery
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The statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream Daniel 2.
Illustration of Purusha Sukta (hymn 10.90 of the Rigveda)
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Epimetheus and Pandora. Attic red-figure volute krater, ca 450. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum.
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Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel, ca 1511.
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve in Paradise (The Fall), 1533
Enkidu and Shamhat
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The Creation of Pandora (“Anesidora”). Attic white-ground kylix by the Tarquinia Painter, ca 460-450. London, The British Museum.
The creation of Pandora. Detail from an Attic red-figured calyx-krater attributed to the Niobid Painter, ca 460-450 BC. London, The British Museum.
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ΤΟ ΚΟΥΤΙ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΝΔΩΡΑΣ ΚΡΥΒΕΙ ΜΙΑ ΕΛΠΙΔΑ (Pandora’s Box Hides a Hope). Cartoon by Ioanna Fetsi, 2012.
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Pyrrha and Deucalion. Painted basin from the Fontana workshop, 1565-1575. Los Angeles, J Paul Getty Museum.
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Pyrrha and Deucalion. Painted basin from the Fontana workshop, 1565-1575. Los Angeles, J Paul Getty Museum.