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Classics 456 Dr. Soren
Greek and Roman Painting and Mosaics
Lecture 27: House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii
A. Pictures detached in Naples- east several blocks from Stabian Baths, 50-75 A.D. Mature 4th Style
1. Fauces- Dioscuri and horses
2. Tablinum- exploits of Achilles
3. Peristyle Room- Medea
4. The Golden Fleece and the Argonauts- Jason, Pelias, and
Aeson
5. Colchis
6. Aeson, son Promachus and wife
7. Witchcraft- goat cut up and restored, Pelias' daughters, +
Acastus, son of Pelias .
8.Jason and Medea to Creon of Corinth and Jason and the
Daughter of Creon
9. Poison robe and diadem
10. Mermerus and Pherus
11. Timomachus of Byzantium
12. Originals costly- Julius Caesar paid circa 40,000 dollars
B.The Witchcraft Scene from the House of the Dioscuri,
Pompeii
l. Tablinum at top of the wall
2. Tanagra
3. Ludwig Curtius- Demeter? King? Allegory- poor
hut/palace?
4. Sorcery- Augustus tries to suppress it
a. Horace- Epode 5: "Canidia brevibus implicata viperis
crinis et incomptum caput, iubet sepulcris caprificos erutas, iubet cupressos funebris et uncta turpis ova ranae sanguine."
- Canidia- murders young boy, buries up to chin, dry liver out to use as love charm
c. Boy wore bulla versus fascinum
d. Hoot-owl feathers, bones from jaws of hungry female
dog, burn in witch fire
5. Lead tablets
6. The Number Three- Vergil Eclogue 8
a. Alphesiboeus loves Daphnis- win her with magic
l. 3 threads, 3 colors
2. Lead image 3 times around altar
3. Herbs and poisons from Black Sea
b. "Ego vidi Moerim saepe fieri lupum his, saepe excire animas imis sepulcris atque
traducere satas messes alio."
c. Witches- steal baby hearts and blood of virgins
For the PowerPoint of this lecture click here.