The Mortal Realm

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In this oil painting, there is a nude women laying in a cave. This woman is the depiction of Eve from the Bible as well as Pandora from Greek mythology. She is seen with an apple branch and human skull in her right arm and a snake wrapped around her right arm with a jug.
Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Prometheus is seated, holding a torch and has one arm extended to Pandora, on his right standing holding a pithos, as he is attempting to keep distance between Pandora and a clay statue of man, on his left. Mercury is standing behind the three looking on.
This cover of the novel "House of Names" by Colm Toibin depicts a cracked white sculpture of a hand (with the words "a novel" in the center of it) against a red flaming background. The words "House of Names" are written at the top of the cover, and "Colm Toibin" is written at the bottom, both in black.
Perseus with the Head of Medusa is a statue by Benvenuto Cellini that is currently on display in Florence, Italy. It can be seen in this beautiful city in the piazza della Signoria. It resembles Perseus holding Medusa's head after he beheaded her. He then used the head to turn the king into stone.
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The statue depicts an episode from Book 9 of Homer’s “Odyssey”, in which Odysseus dulls Polyphemus's senses by giving him wine and then blinds him with a pole.
On this painting, Circe is shown with one hand holding the cup and the other hand with a wand, probably getting ready to cast a spell. She is surrounded by purple flowers with pigs (probably Odysseus' men that she turned) near her feet. We can see the reactions of Odysseus through the mirror behind her.
On this silk embroidered tapestry, Penelope (approximately life-size) stands in the center facing out toward the viewer. She turns her head to her left to look at her loom behind her, where the tapestry she is weaving is hung. A small oil lamp on the left indicates that the scene takes place at night. By the lamplight, Penelope unravels her weaving.

Eva Prima Pandora

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This painting depicts the conflation of the Greek myth Pandora and biblical myth Eve as a nude woman laying down in a cave. She bears a serpent wrapped around her arm and an apple branch, which recalls the story of Eve. She also has a jug that alludes to Pandora’s box. This fusion of Eve and Pandora show the similarities of the first women and how she was a main contributor to the fall of humanity.
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