Modern Artistic Landmarks of Greek Myth
c.1302-1321 - Dante - The Divine Comedy, poem.
14th Century - Anonymous - Ovide Moralise, poem.
c. 1486 - Botticelli - Birth of Venus, oil painting.
1553-54 - Titian - Venus and Adonis, oil painting.
1546-54 - Cellini - Perseus Holding the Head of the Medusa, bronze sculpture.
c.1567 - Peter Bruegel the Elder - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, oil painting.
c.1570-76 - Titian - The Flaying of Marsyas, oil painting.
1590 - Spenser - The Fairie Queen, poem.
1592-93 - Shakespeare - Venus and Adonis, poem.
c.1601-14 - El Greco - Laocoon, oil painting.
1607 - Monteverdi - La favola d'Orfeo, opera.
1609 - Francis Bacon - The Wisdom of the Ancients, prose treatise.
1622-25 - Bernini - Apollo and Daphne, marble sculpture.
1635 - Rembrandt - The Rape of Ganymede, oil painting.
1636-38 - Rubens - The Banquet of Tereus, oil painting.
1742 - Boucher - Diana Leaving the Bath, oil painting.
1755 - Winckelmann - Reflections on the Imitations of Greek Works in Painting & Sculpture, artistic criticism/study.
1762 - Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice, opera.
1788 - Schiller - The Gods of Greece, poem.
1811 - Ingres - Jupiter and Thetis, oil painting.
1818 - Keats - Endymion, poem.
1820 - Shelley - Prometheus Unbound, drama in verse.
1821-22 - Goya - Saturn Devouring One of his Children, oil painting.
1825 - K.O. Muller - Introduction to a Science of Mythology, academic study.
1856 - Kingsley - The Heroes, set of children's stories.
1858 - Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld, comic opera.
1862 - Bouguereau - The Remorse of Orestes, oil painting.
1867 - F.M. Muller - Chips from a German Workshop, academic study on language, religion and mythology.
1872 - Nietsche - The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music, philosophical treatise.
1896-97 - Waterhouse - Hylas and the Nymphs, oil painting.
1911 - Cavafy - Ithaca, poem.
1890-1915 - Frazer - The Golden Bough, comparative study of ancient myths.
1912 - Harrison - Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, academic study.
1922 - Joyce - Ulysses, fictional novel.
1927 - Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex, opera oratorio.
1934 - Cocteau - La machine infernale, play.
1935 - Giraudoux - La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu, play.
1937 - Salvador Dali - Metamorphosis of Narcissus, oil painting.
1938 - Kazantzakis - The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, poem.
1890-1939 - Sigmund Freud - Psychological study of the Oedipus Complex.
1943 - Sartre - Les Mouches, play.
1944 - Anouilh - Antigone, play.
1963 - Durrenmatt - Hercules and the Augean Stables, comic drama.
1963 - Columbia Films - Jason and the Argonauts, motion picture.
1967 - Pasolini - Edipo re, film.
1969 - De Chirico - The Remorse of Orestes, painting.
1977 - Cacoyannis - Iphigenia, film.
1981 - Hall - Oresteia, theatrical play in London England.
1997 - Disney Productions - Hercules, animated film.
1997 - Hughes - Tales from Ovid, alternate translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
1999 - Charles Moffat - The Cleveland Medusa, painting.
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