Hades’objects : helmet of invisibility and seats of oblivion. Among the attributes usually devolved to the Greek king of the underworld, two things seem to be endowed with magical powers : Hades’helmet making invisible whoever wears it and the seats (or rocks) of oblivion that hold eternally in the underworld the living who had the misfortune to sit down there. After studying the texts (origin and tradition), we focus on iconographic representation. These objects are not always directly related to Hades, but rather to the feats of heroes such as Perseus, who after the beheading of Medusa managed to escape thanks to Hades’helmet, or Theseus and Peirithoos who, during their descent to Hades to abduct Persephone, were unable to get up from the...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
Depictions of the underworld, in ancient Greek and Roman textual and visual sources, differ signific...
Hades’objects : helmet of invisibility and seats of oblivion. Among the attributes usually devolved ...
Greek mythology features a certain number of myths where objects of various natures and origins play...
Greek mythology features a certain number of myths where objects of various natures and origins play...
This work relies on the importance of visible and invisible in the structural Greek thought in order...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
This work relies on the importance of visible and invisible in the structural Greek thought in order...
This work relies on the importance of visible and invisible in the structural Greek thought in order...
This work relies on the importance of visible and invisible in the structural Greek thought in order...
The motif of hetoimasia is one of the most widespread and most complex in medieval iconography, a...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
Depictions of the underworld, in ancient Greek and Roman textual and visual sources, differ signific...
Hades’objects : helmet of invisibility and seats of oblivion. Among the attributes usually devolved ...
Greek mythology features a certain number of myths where objects of various natures and origins play...
Greek mythology features a certain number of myths where objects of various natures and origins play...
This work relies on the importance of visible and invisible in the structural Greek thought in order...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
This work relies on the importance of visible and invisible in the structural Greek thought in order...
This work relies on the importance of visible and invisible in the structural Greek thought in order...
This work relies on the importance of visible and invisible in the structural Greek thought in order...
The motif of hetoimasia is one of the most widespread and most complex in medieval iconography, a...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
International audienceThe case of the funerary figures from Cyrene is a good one to explore the prob...
Depictions of the underworld, in ancient Greek and Roman textual and visual sources, differ signific...