Maps of the Mediterranean

Theseus, the Minotaur, & the "twice seven" (black figure vase of ca. 540/530 B.C.)

Europa and the Bull cross the sea (red figure vase of ca. 340 B.C.)

Euhemerism / Historicism revisited: reading myth as history

• Thucydides (quote, Powell CM, p. 366)
• The archaeological record: the great palace civilization of Crete (3100-1000 B.C.)
• Images of the remains of the Minoan civilization
• Bulls and Crete
  

Romans and Mythographers, old and new

• Ovid, Roman poet of late 1st century B.C., and early 1st century A.D.
• Examples at Powell, CM p. 348, line 843ff. & p. 362,57ff.
• A very different attitude towards myth!
• Apollodorus, The Library, Greek mythographer of 1st century B.C. (one of many! writing such handbooks)
• Example of Scylla
• Barry Powell as a modern mythographer