The Pergamon Zeus Altar and the Gigantomachy - South Frieze

Michael Lahanas


The Southern frieze


Kybele , Adrasteia, Kabiros (or who loved him. However, she neglected to ask that Tithonus be given the gift of eternal youth, so that he withered away in an ever increasing decrepitude. The name Tithonus thus became proverbial for a decrepit old man.


Selene?, the Horses of Helios charge against a giant. Selene was a Greek goddess of the moon


Theia with opponent, Eos riding on a dog or lion over a fallen giant? Hemera (mostly destroyed). Theia is a minor Greek goddess, one of the Titans. Her husband and brother is Hyperion with whom she had three children - Helios (the sun), Eos (the dawn) and

by Langford Conference of the Department of Classics 1997 Florida State (Corporate Author), Nancy Thomson De Grummond (Editor), Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (Editor) University of California Press ( 2001) ISBN: 0520223276

Ancient Greece

Medieval Greece / Byzantine Empire

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