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Sources

 

Primary Sources:

 

Leda and the Swan:

Yeats, W.B. “Leda and the Swan.” Poets.org. Accessed: April 17, 2015. ("Zeus" Page Reference #10)

 

The Rape of Medusa:

Ovid. Metamorphoses. trans: A.S. Kline. 2000.

 

Secondary Sources:

 

Parada, Carlos. “Hades.” Greek Mythology Link. 1997. Accessed: March 22, 2015. http://www.maicar.com/GML/Hades.html

−. “Poseidon.” Greek Mythology Link. 1997. Accessed: March 22, 2015. http://www.maicar.com/GML/Poseidon.html

−. “Zeus.” Greek Mythology Link. 1997. Accessed: March 22, 2015. http://www.maicar.com/GML/Zeus.html

 

Leda and the Swan:

  1. Barnwell, W.C. “The Rapist in “Leda and the Swan”.” South Atlantic Bulletin 42, no. 1 (1977): 62-68

  2. Cotten, Angela L., and Christa Davis Acampora, eds. Cultural sites of critical insight: philosophy, aesthetics, and African                American and Native American women's writings. SUNY Press, 2012.

  3. Cesare da Sesto. Leda and the Swan, 1505- 1510. Oil on Panel, 69,5 x 73,7 cm. Wilton House, Salisbury.

  4. Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Leda and the Swan, 1512-1517. Oil on Panel, 57.5 x 36.8 cm. North Carolina Museum of Art.

  5. Mat Collishaw. Leda and the Swan, 2006. Installation art.

  6. Newman, Stephanie L. “How Does Harvard Respond to Literature Involving Rape?” The Harvard Crimson (2013).

  7. Sandro Chia. Leda and the Swan, 2000. Oil Painting.

  8. Sword, Helen. “Leda and the Modernists.” PMLA 107, no. 2 (1992): 305-318.

  9. Viana, Maria Rita Drumond. “Violence and Violation: The rape in Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan”.” Estação Literária 6 (2010): 52-      61

 

The Rape of Medusa:

 

  1. Beasley, Zane. "Medusa and Poseidon." Medusa Victim or Villian? 2013. Accessed: March 22, 2015. https://sites.google.com/site/zanebeasleysstorybook/medusa-and-poseidon

  2. Bogan, Louise. "Medusa in Myth and Literary History." Modern American Poetry. Accessed: March 22, 2015. http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bogan/medusamyth.htm

  3. Bowers, Susan R. "Medusa and the Female Gaze." NWSA Journal 2, no. 2 (1990): 217-235.

  4. Burkert, Walter (1985). Greek Religion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 136–39. ISBN 0-674-36281-0.

  5. Parada, Carlos. "Medusa 1." Greek Mythology Link. 1997. Accessed: March 22, 2015.

  6. Seeling, Beth J. "The Rape of Medusa in the Temple of Athena: Aspects of Triangulation in the Girl." 2001: 895-911

  7. "Family Tree of the Greek Gods." Wikipedia. April 6, 2015. Accessed: April 15, 2015. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_the_Greek_gods

 

Persephone and Hades:

  1. Atsma, Aaron J. "RAPE OF PERSEPHONE 1 : Greek Mythology." RAPE OF PERSEPHONE 1 : Greek Mythology. January 1, 2011. Accessed March 26, 2015. http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/HaidesPersephone1.html.

  2. Buchwald, Emilie, Pamela R. Fletcher, and Martha Roth. Transforming a Rape Culture. Milkweed Editions, 2005.

  3. Donovan, Josephine. After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.

  4. Downing, Christine. The Long Journey Home: Re-visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time. Boston: Shambhala, 1994.

  5. Foley, Helene P. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.

     

Images:

  1. Leda and the Swan, Apulian Red Figures on a two handled vase circa 330 BCE, Greek Classical Era.
  2. Leda and the Swan mosaic, circa 3rd Century CE, found in Cyprus.
  3. Frieze fragment of Leda and the Swan made from painted limestone. Found in a pagan Egyptian tomb, dates back to the 4th-5th Century CE, Late Antique Egyptian Period. Now located in the Brooklyn Museum.
  4. Leda and the Swan marble statue in the Palazzo Nuovo museum in Rome, Italy.
  5. "Leda Au Cygne."Paul Cezanne. Oil Painting. 1880.
  6. "Medusa, Poseidon, and the Birth of Pegasus." Boeotian black figures on a three handled bowl. Dated to the late 5th Century BCE, the Greek Archaic Period.
  7. Medusa relief sculpture from the western pediment of the Artemis Temple in Corfu, circa the Greek Archaic Period. Found in the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.
  8. "The Medusa." Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Carrera marble bust, circa 1640's. Found in the Musei Capitolini in Rome, Italy.
  9. "Perseus with the Head of Medusa." Antonio Canova. Marble statue. 1804-1806. Located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
  10. "Medusa." Arnold Böcklin. Oil Painting. 1878.
  11. Pinax of Persephone and Hades from the holy shrine of Persephone at Locri in the district Mannella. Dated to the Greek Hellenic Period. Now located in the Museum of Locri.
  12. Mosaic depicting the abduction of Persephone. Found in the second chamber of the tomb of Amphipolis and dates back to the 4th Century BCE.
  13. "Hades Abducts Persephone" painting found in a Macedonian royal tomb of Aiges, dated to the Greek Hellenistic Period.
  14. "The Rape of Proserpina." Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Marble sculpture located in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Italy. Circa 1621-1622.
  15. "The Return of Persephone." Frederic Leighton. Oil Painting. 1891.

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