[Corax]

I am not sure if this is the right spot for this posting but I sure some kind person will move it if it should be somewhere else!

Help please! I am trying to find a poster of the Roman gods - the sort of thing to stick on a wall to accompany a talk about them. I have tried all the usual places like e bay and Amazon and the only things I can find are aimed at young school children. :(

The kind of thing I am looking for is a list of the Olympians with details of their attributes, with possibly info about other notable deities. Has anyone any ideas as I have already spent hours on the pc looking for something suitable!!

Many thanks in advance..

[GhostOfClayton]

I'd buy one of those!

[Klingan]

Does it need to be poster, or will a high def picture do?

[Corax]

Klingan, on 15 January 2012 - 07:04 PM, said:

Does it need to be poster, or will a high def picture do?

A high def picture would be fine so long as it had all the 12 Olympians and a bit about them all..!

I thought you could buy ANYTHING on the internet..but obviously not....! :D

[Klingan]

Corax, on 16 January 2012 - 11:16 AM, said:

Klingan, on 15 January 2012 - 07:04 PM, said:

Does it need to be poster, or will a high def picture do?

A high def picture would be fine so long as it had all the 12 Olympians and a bit about them all..!

I thought you could buy ANYTHING on the internet..but obviously not....! :D

When do you need it? I might (big might) be able to work something out for you.

[Melvadius]

It may not be precisely what you are looking for but have you found this image of the Roman Gods family tree?

[Corax]

Thank you both for your very kind suggestions. I did find something like the “family tree” somewhere on the web, which is good for people who might already have some knowledge of the Roman gods and goddesses. I shall hang on to the link for future reference.

I have drawn a very short straw and been volunteered to give a talk to adults about Roman religion – a kind of very brief overview. I am assuming no knowledge at all so would like something quite simple but with all the usual Olympians and a few other notable deities with a bit about their sacred animals and/or what they were gods of. It is just something to stick on a wall rather than go through the list of them all. I am due to do the talk – if I do not chicken out – in the middle of February….

I did manage to get a poster geared to children but it only shows eight deities – rather an odd number – maybe the others were on holiday??

It seems surprising that such a thing does not seem to exist – maybe Theodosius is to blame??? :lol:

[Klingan]

Corax, on 17 January 2012 - 07:11 PM, said:

I did manage to get a poster geared to children but it only shows eight deities – rather an odd number – maybe the others were on holiday??

It might have to do with the face that some of them are simply not very commonly found in ancient sculpture - Hades is exceedingly rare, I only know two preserved statues of Mars (one in the Louvre one in the Villa of Hadrian) and Hephaestus only one (ancient, not preserved) of Hefaistos (although I have a feeling that I've seen him somewhere). The others should be fairly easy.

[GhostOfClayton]

Klingan, on 17 January 2012 - 11:30 PM, said:

I only know two preserved statues of Mars (one in the Louvre one in the Villa of Hadrian).

I would be negligent if I didn't draw your attention to the excellent statue of Mars in the Yorkshire Museum, York. He's so impressive, he acts as their poster-boy.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4001/4478315557_88a47fed69_z.jpg

[Klingan]

GhostOfClayton, on 18 January 2012 - 11:07 AM, said:

Klingan, on 17 January 2012 - 11:30 PM, said:

I only know two preserved statues of Mars (one in the Louvre one in the Villa of Hadrian).

I would be negligent if I didn't draw your attention to the excellent statue of Mars in the Yorkshire Museum, York. He's so impressive, he acts as their poster-boy.

Wow, that's a great one! Where does it come from (original context that is)?

[GhostOfClayton]

Klingan, on 18 January 2012 - 11:10 PM, said:

Wow, that's a great one! Where does it come from (original context that is)?

It's dated 300 to 350AD, and was found in the city of York (Eboracum - former Legionary HQ, colonia, and provincial capital of Britannia Secunda). It's thought to be the best example of a Roman statue ever found in Britain. He greets you as you enter the main part of the Yorkshire Museum in York, and, when I met him, I found him to be very impressive.

A quick note about the Yorkshire Museum for Romanophiles. It's not exclusively Roman, but the vast majority is. It's spacious, clean and well laid out, and well worth a visit.

[Auris Arrectibus]

Hi Corax,

Renaissance painters (or close to that period) often depict Olympian gods with their symbols.
So, I suggest to search for "Council of the Gods", "Banquet of the gods" or "Feast of the Gods" and you will find what you are looking for.

For instance the painting by Giovanni Lanfranco(1625). Or the one by Raffaello Sanzio(1518). Or by Monsau.
There must be one to find on the web with enough pixels ......

Or maybe this one: Olympian Gods



Good luck,

Jeroen H de Lange,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

[Corax]

Thank you all for your very useful suggestions. I must admit I had not even thought to look for “council of the gods” so will give that a try now.

Even if I do not end up with exactly what I want in the way of a poster, I now have added York to my wish list of places to go and see! I have had a look at the new York museum on line and it sounds well worth a visit. That statue of Mars looks very impressive. How tall is it?

[GhostOfClayton]

Corax, on 21 January 2012 - 07:48 PM, said:

Even if I do not end up with exactly what I want in the way of a poster, I now have added York to my wish list of places to go and see! I have had a look at the new York museum on line and it sounds well worth a visit. That statue of Mars looks very impressive. How tall is it?

It's pretty much life size - the lady on the photo isn't diminutive, Mars is standfing on a plinth. However, his feet are sadly missing.

Roman things to see in York:

Yorkshire museum
Roman Baths Museum
Roman Column by the minster gates (and also the modern statue of Constantine)
From the city walls near Monk Bar you can see the remains of the east corner tower of the Roman fortress, (the site of York’s first archaeological excavation in the 1920s). Multiangular Tower and Museum Gardens: The Multangular Tower stood at the west corner of the Roman fortress. The lower part is original Roman work, identifiable by the small rectangular facing stones. The upper part, identifiable by larger blocks, is medieval. Exploring around (both sides) of the Multiangular Tower is worth doing - plenty of sarcophogi and other random unmarked pieces of Roman masonry.
St Leonard’s Place: In the car park next to the council offices is a small piece of the Roman fortress wall.
Bootham Bar (one of York’s four medieval city gates) stands on the site of the Roman fortress' porta principalis dextra. There's no obvious Roman presence now, though.

IMHO, Lincoln is the better destination for the Romanophile.