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THE SEMINAR
Centring on Chiron, as both celestial body and mythological figure, this seminar examines his connection to the archetype of ‘the victim’, reflecting upon ways the myth might manifest in individual lives today, particularly in personal relationships.
Here, Greene calls attention to the current societal shift towards individual and collective grievance and outrage, often leading to harmful behaviours. Drawing on the work of Jung and Hillman, she discusses how perceptions shape reality, influencing the rise of the ‘cult of the victim’.
First mentioned by Homer, Chiron is unique among planetary divinities as a hybrid, conjoining divine and animal qualities. Chiron’s emotional journey and symbolic significance are explored through depictions of his myth in art as healer, teacher, and prophet. Greene draws out Chiron’s paradoxical role as ‘wounded healer’, whose wounds are deeply personal yet rooted in ancestral history.
Noting that planets in astrology are symbolic lenses rather than concrete causes of behaviour, Greene examines the role of Chiron’s placement in a birth chart, emphasising its dual nature of healing and pain. Interactions across birth charts can reveal deeper insights, and the example of Freud and Jung is presented, using charts to explore their intense but ultimately conflicted relationship.
Focusing on Chiron’s current position in Aries, influenced by Mars, Greene traces its reflection in collective feelings of powerlessness and frustration in modern life. The seminar offers no easy answers, instead highlighting the value of small steps of resistance, finding gaps in the in-between, moments of genuine compassion, and consciousness of our own perceptions. True healing requires confronting our own darkness and savage responses to pain.
An incisive exploration of darker themes in society and humanity, drawing from a diversity of sources through mythology, astrology and art, this session invites multiple viewings.
chaired by philippa campbell
ABOUT LIZ GREENE
A professional astrologer for nearly sixty years, Liz Greene holds doctorates in both psychology and history and is a qualified Jungian analyst.
She also holds the diploma from the Faculty of Astrological Studies, of which she is a lifetime Patron, and was a tutor for several years on the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology for Bath Spa University and the University of Wales, Lampeter.
She is the author of many books on astrological, psychological and mythological themes, which have been translated into a number of different languages, and also worked with Dr. Alois Treindl of Astrodienst to create a number of computer-generated astrological interpretation programmes that are available in many languages.
'THE EDUCATION OF ACHILLES'
James Barry (c. 1772)
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SLIDE REFERENCES,
LICENCES & LINKS
In addition to reference information, we have included links to explore further resources such as museums, galleries, libraries, archives, artist websites and image data and discussions. We have also included some links to alternative imagery published online.
For each presentation slide, references are set out, including holding institutions, collections and links to further contextual information. Alongside this, credits, and licensing information is detailed for the photograph of the work shown in the presentation.
Every effort has been made to ensure the appropriate permissions and licenses are in place for each image. Where available, links to full license and permission statements are embedded in the listing below (simply click on the text to open the link in a new window). In the event of any queries or issues arising, please get in touch.
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‘The Education of Achilles.’ Barry, James. (c. 1772) Oil on canvas. Collection of Yale Center for British Art, Paintings and Sculpture. Paul Mellon Fund.
presentation image Yale Center for British Art. Reproduced through cc0 1.0 deed (pd)
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‘Universal Astrological Symbol for Chiron.’
see https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21225-chiron-comment.pdf
presentation image Symbol Design: The Noto Project Authors. (2022) Noto Typeface, (Unicode +26B7). Licensed under the sil open font license, version 1.1. https://fonts.google.com/noto
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Rushdie, Salman. (2023) Excerpt from a video message to the British Book Awards, London and online, where he was awarded the Freedom to Publish award on 15 May 2023.
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‘Salman Rushdie at Frankfurt Book Fair.’ (2023) Digital Photograph.
presentation image Photograph: Ternovaja, Elena, 2023. (edited), Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced under the creative commons attribution-share alike 3.0 international license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salman_Rushdie,_Oktober_2023_Ausschnitt.jpg
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‘The Orbit of 2060 Chiron.’ Reyk. (2009) Digital visualisation.
presentation image Reyk, 2009, Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced under public domain (pd) release. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38068800
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‘Centaur of Lefkandi.’ (1050-900 bce) Clay. The Archaeological Museum of Eretria, Greece.
presentation image Photograph: Jebulon, 2016. (edited), Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced through cc0 1.0 deed.
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‘The Sophilos Dinos.’ Detail showing Chiron in humanoid form with the equine half attached at the base of his spine. (c. 580-570 bce) Pottery (clay) Greek black-figured wine-bowl. British Museum, London.
presentation image Photograph: ArchaiOptix (2016), Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced through the creative commons attribution-share alike 4.0 international license. https://w.wiki/9qJH
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‘Chiron Instructs Young Achilles.’ Roman fresco of Chiron with Achilles. His laurel wreath associates him with Apollo, his foster-father, and so does the lyre, which is Apollo’s instrument. (1st century ce) Herculaneum. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.
presentation image Photograph: Unknown (Undated), Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd). https://w.wiki/9mEc
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‘Sphinx of Hatshepsut.’ (c. 1479–1458 bce) Granite, paint. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Collection of Egyptian Art. Rogers Fund, 1931.
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‘Pan, Patron God of Flocks & Shepherds, Teaching Shepherd to Play the Flute.’ Roman copy of a Greek original (Roman Imperial Period) Marble. Galleries of Ancient Greece and Italy, Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
presentation image Photograph: Todd, Gary, 2016. (edited) Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced through cc0 1.0 universal public domain dedication. https://w.wiki/9k9u
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‘Medusa.’ Side A from a Greek black-figure neck-amphora (6th century bce) Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Purchase, 1859.
presentation image Photograph: Jastrow, 2006. Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced under public domain (pd) release. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gorgon_Louvre_F230.jpg
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'Babylonian Winged Bull.’ Bas-relief from King Sargon II's Palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq) (8th century bce) Department of Oriental Antiquities, Richelieu. Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Excavated by Paul-Émile Botta, 1843–1844.
presentation image Photograph: Benoist, Jean-Christophe, 2016. Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced under c.c. attribution-share alike 3.0 license. https://w.wiki/9mGM
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‘Oedipus and the Sphinx.’ Moreau, Gustave (1864) Oil on Canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Collection of European Paintings. Bequest of William H. Herriman, 1920.
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‘Caress of the Sphinx.’ Khnopff, Fernand (1896) Oil on Canvas. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Acquired in 1956.
presentation image Photograph: Google Cultural Institute (Undated). Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd). https://w.wiki/9mEK
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‘Jupiter Seducing Olympias of Epirus.’ Romano, Giulio (Pippi Giulio) (c. 1526-34) Fresco. Collection of Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy.
presentation image Photograph: Unknown (Undated) Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd) https://w.wiki/AopR
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‘Saturn and Philyra.’ Parmigianino (16th century) Oil on Panel. Unidentified collection.
presentation image Photograph: tanogabo.it (Undated) Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd) https://w.wiki/9mGN
'OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX'
Gustave Moreau (1864)
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‘The Sophilos Dinos.’ (Detail showing Okeanos). (c. 580-570 bce) Pottery (clay) Greek black-figured wine-bowl. British Museum, London.
presentation image Photograph: ArchaiOptix (2016), Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced through the creative commons attribution-share alike 4.0 international license. https://w.wiki/9qJp
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‘Mosaic of Oceanos and Tethys.’ (Detail of Oceanos). (2nd-3rd centuries ce) Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey.
presentation image Photograph: Jones, Adam (2011), Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced through the creative commons attribution-share alike 2.0 generic license. https://w.wiki/9qKN
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‘Caeretan Hydria.’ (Detail of Herakles and Hydra). Attributed to Eagle Painter. (520–510 bce) Terracotta. Etruscan black-figure water jar. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California.
presentation image Photograph: The J. Paul Getty Museum. reproduced through the creative commons cc0 1.0 deed. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103VHE
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‘Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra.’ Moreau, Gustave (1875/76) Oil on Canvas. Collection of Art Institute of Chicago, USA. Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson.
presentation image Art Institute of Chicago. (Undated). Reproduced through creative commons cco public domain designation. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/20579/hercules-and-the-lernaean-hydra
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‘Battle of the Centaurs.’ Böcklin, Arnold (1872/1873) Oil on Canvas. Collection of Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. Purchased through the Birmann Fund, 1876.
presentation image Kunstmuseum, Basel (Undated) Reproduced under public domain (pd) release. http://tiny.cc/5n9txz
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‘Death of the Centaur.’ Eaton, Scott (2009) Digital Sculpture.
presentation image Reproduced courtesy of the Artist. © Scott Eaton. All Rights Reserved.
https://www.scott-eaton.com/2009/death-of-the-centaur-chiron
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‘Laconic Kylix with Prometheus and Atlas.’ (Detail) Arkesilas Painter (560-550 bce). Painted black-figure ceramic. Cerveteri. Collection of Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican City, Italy.
presentation image Poggemann, Karl-Ludwig (2008). Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced under the creative commons attribution 2.0 generic license https://w.wiki/9qLk
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‘Prometheus.’ Moreau, Gustave (1868) Oil on Canvas. Collection of Musée National Gustave-Moreau. Paris, France.
presentation image Photograph: Ekladata (Undated), Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd). https://w.wiki/AojL
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‘Chiron sacrifices himself for Prometheus.’ Artist Unknown (1934) Liebig trade card.
presentation image Licensed by Look and Learn - All Rights Reserved.
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‘The Education of Achilles.’ Barry, James. (c. 1772) Oil on canvas. Collection of Yale Center for British Art, Paintings and Sculpture. Paul Mellon Fund.
presentation image Photograph: Yale Center for British Art. Reproduced through cc0 1.0 deed (pd)
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‘The Education of Achilles.’ Gagneraux, Bénigne (1785) Oil on Canvas. Unknown Collection.
presentation image Photograph: Christie's (2011). Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd).
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‘Fantastic Hunt.’ von Stuck, Franz (before 1890) Oil on Light-Primed Canvas (Panama Weave). Collection of Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany. Ziersch donation.
presentation image Photograph: Steglich, Nikolaus (Undated) Museum Villa Stuck. Reproduced through creative commons attribution-share alike 4.0 international license
https://www.villastuck.de/en/sammlung-online/detail/phantastischejagd-40000004
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‘The Abduction of Deianira.’ Anonymous (17th century work copied from, and misattributed to, Rubens - see here) Oil on Panel. Collection of Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
presentation image license Album / Alamy Stock Photo (P47K94)
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'MOSAIC OF OCEANOS AND TETHYS'
Roman mosaic (2nd-3rd centuries ce)
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‘The Promenade.’ von Stuck, Franz (1903) Oil on Canvas. Collection of Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, Germany.
presentation image Photograph: Tilman2007 (2016) Reproduced through the cc attribution-share alike 4.0 international license. https://w.wiki/AomM
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‘Centaur with Cello.’ Redon, Odilon (1910) Oil on Canvas. Private Collection.
presentation image Photograph: WikiArt.org. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd).
https://www.wikiart.org/en/odilon-redon/centaur-with-cello-1910
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‘Centaur Reading.’ Redon, Odilon (c 1880) Charcoal drawing on light brown paper. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY. Thaw Collection, Dept. of Drawings and Prints.
presentation image Photograph: The Morgan Library & Museum (nd). This artwork is in the public-domain (pd). https://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/266985
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‘Centaur Mosaic from the Villa Hadriana.’ Roman mosaic of a centaur defending his mate against a lion, a leopard, and a tiger. Unknown Artist (2nd century ce) Mosaic (stone). Collection of Altes Museum (Etruscan and Roman Art), The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany.
presentation image Google Arts & Culture, 2019. (edited), Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd). https://w.wiki/Aon5
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‘Family of Centaurs.’ Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760) (1730) Oil on canvas. Collection of National Museum in Warsaw, Poland.
presentation image Photograph: National Museum in Warsaw, (2017). Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd). https://w.wiki/9syj
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‘Series: Equile Ioannis Austriaci.’ A Centaur Family. Collaert II, Jan. (c 1578). Engraving on Paper. The British Museum, London. Department of Prints and Drawings. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1957-0413-245
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‘Hybrid Sculpture (Centaur).’ Shonibare, Yinka cbe. (2021) Fibreglass sculpture, hand-painted with Dutch wax pattern, hand-carved wooden mask. Unknown Collection.
presentation image license © Yinka Shonibare CBE. All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2024. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photograph: Stephen White & Co.
https://yinkashonibare.com/artwork/hybrid-sculpture-centaur-2021
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‘We Walked the Earth.’ A drama of life and death, hope and despair, in a transhuman world inhabited by centaurs. Isolotto, Uffe (2022) Granite, Hyperrealistic installation. Pavilion of Denmark, La Biennale di Venezia 2022. Curated by Jacob Lillemose. Commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation.
presentation image Photograph: Jurvetson, Steve (2022). Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced through creative commons attribution 2.0 generic license. https://w.wiki/AooF
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‘Pierce Brosnan as Chiron in 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief’’ dir: Columbus, Chris. (2010) Film: Fantasy-Adventure. dist: 20th Century Fox.
presentation image license Album / Alamy Stock Photo
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‘Meet Chiron - Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.’ [uploaded by] Rivera, Jannah (2011). Video clip (38 seconds). https://youtu.be/k29CY3pXYUY?si=aDfImsbQM_9qKrPQ
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‘Chiron in the Natal Chart: Sigmund Freud.’ Chart originally created for the publication: Greene, Liz (2023) Chiron in Love: The Astrology of Envy, Rage, Compassion and Wisdom, The Wessex Astrologer, Dorset.
presentation image © Liz Greene (All Rights Reserved) reproduced with permission from Liz Greene and Wessex Astrologer. Birth data for Sigmund Freud, with permission, from Astrodienst https://www.astro.com
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‘Photographic Portrait of Sigmund Freud.’ Halberstadt, Max (c 1921) Silver Gelatin Photographic Print.
presentation image Photograph: Christie's (2017) (cropped version). Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd). https://w.wiki/97Jb
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‘George Carlin Performing One of His Last Shows in 2008.’ (Detail) Bonnie (2008) Digital Photograph.
presentation image Photograph: Bonnie, Point-Shoot-Edit (2008) Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced under the creative commons attribution-share alike 2.0 generic license. https://w.wiki/Ap7u
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“Never underestimate the power of stupid people gathered in large groups.” Carlin, George.
further details This adage, popularised by the US comedian George Carlin, evolved over time. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/04/22/power-stupid
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‘The League of German Girls celebrating the annexation of Austria by the Nazis.’ Photographer Unknown (March, 1938) Photograph.
'THE EDUCATION OF ACHILLES'
Eugène Delacroix (c. 1862)
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‘Freud Family Group.’ Freud is standing in the back row, third from the left. Photographer Unknown. (c 1876) Photograph. Wellcome Collection, London.
presentation image Wellcome Images, Wellcome Trust. This work is in the public-domain (pd). https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ckxafpw4/images?id=wcd5ew6j
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‘Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, posed at Clark University, Worcester, Mass.’ Adapted from a group photograph. Photographer Unknown (1909) Photographic Print. Collection of American Library of Congress, Washington. Department of Prints and Photographs.
presentation image Photograph: Unknown Photographer (1909) Wikimedia Commons. This work is in the public-domain (pd). https://w.wiki/ApAG
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‘The Education of Achilles.’ Delacroix, Eugène (c. 1862) Pastel. Getty Collections, California, USA. Department of Drawings.
presentation image Photograph: Getty Research Institute's Open Content Program, 2023. Reproduced through open access policy cc0 1.0 license. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103R11
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‘Jung and Freud Birth Charts.’ Chart originally created for the publication: Greene, Liz (2023) Chiron in Love: The Astrology of Envy, Rage, Compassion and Wisdom, The Wessex Astrologer, Dorset.
presentation image © Liz Greene (All Rights Reserved) reproduced with permission from Liz Greene and Wessex Astrologer. Birth data for Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, with permission, from Astrodienst https://www.astro.com
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‘Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud.’ Engelman, Edmund. (c. 1938) Photographic Print. Repository of All About Psychology
presentation image Courtesy of All About Psychology (Uploaded 2009). Reproduced through creative commons attribution 2.0 generic license https://w.wiki/ApAs
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‘Photographic Portrait of Carl Gustav Jung.’ (undated) from the publication: Favrod, C.-H. (1975) La Psychanalyse, Paris, France, Le Livre de Poche editions. p.20 Encyclopédie du Monde Actuel (EDMA) collection [Online]
presentation image This work is licensed under the creative commons attribution-sharealike 3.0 unported license via Wikimedia Commons.
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:EDMA_-_La_psychanalyse,_Le_Livre_de_Poche,_1975.djvu/22
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‘Waite’s Tarot Card of The Sun.’ Waite, Arthur Edward (Artist: Smith, Pamela Colman). (1910) Commercially printed (chromolithography) tarot card.
presentation image Photograph: Fuzzypeg. (2008) Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd). https://w.wiki/ApDW
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‘The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist.’ (Detail: ‘The Christ Child’) El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (c. 1595/1600) Oil on Canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Samuel H. Kress Collection.
presentation image Photograph: The National Gallery of Art, Washington. (Undated) Reproduced through Open Access Policy for public domain works, under commons zero (cc0) license.
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‘Phanes, The God of the new.' (16th c.) Sculpture sited in the Loggia and Odeo Cornaro complex, Padua. Derives from the Ancient Roman relief (2nd century ce) of ‘Phanes inside the Zodiac’, Estensi Galleries, Modena Museum.
presentation image Photograph (cropped): Bia123gio (2022) Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced through creative commons attribution-share alike 4.0 international license. https://w.wiki/ApDg
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Jung’s depiction of ‘Phanes as the Divine Child’ (April, 1919) as it appears in The Red Book (Illumination page 113) can be seen in the official scans online. https://us.theredbookprints.com/product/phanes
see website for image use restrictions Scans © 2024 DigitalFusion Creative Technologies, Inc.
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‘Mars’ Illustration (no 12) from 'De Sphaera’ Unknown (previously attributed to De Predis, Cristoforo.) (1451-1500) Illuminated manuscript (parchment), Collection of the Estense University Library, Modena, Italy. Estense Fund.
presentation image Photograph: bibliotecaestense.beniculturali.it (undated). Wikimedia Commons. This artwork is in the public-domain (pd). https://w.wiki/9t4e
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‘Mars in Salomon.’ Illustration from ‘Splendor Solis’ showing three-headed bird in flask & Mars with shield and spear, seated in a chariot. (Plate f. 25). Attrib. Trismosin, Salomon. (1582) Illuminated manuscript. Collections include: Berlin State Museum; British Library, London; Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
presentation image Photograph: The Internet Archive (Gracchus Dionysus), 2016. Reproduced under the creative commons attribution noncommercial noderivs 4.0 int. deed.
https://archive.org/details/LeSplendorSolisLaToisonDorDeSalomonTrismosin/LeSplendorSolis14.jpg.
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‘The Planet Mars and its Influence on the World.' (from Album page, The Seven Planets) Sadeler, Johann (I), after Maerten de Vos. (1585) Album detail, Coloured engraving on parchment. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Purchase from the FG Waller Fund.
presentation image Photograph: Rijksmuseum (undated),
Reproduced through cc0 1.0 deed. http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.547621
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Simonides fr. 542. quoted in Plato, Protagoras. Translated by Mary Renault.
translation text The selected dialogue translation by Renault, a Greek scholar as well as novelist, forms the opening page to her 1978 novel The Praise Singer. ref Renault, M. (1978) The Praise Singer, 1st ed., New York, USA, Pantheon Books [Online]. Available at https://archive.org/details/praisesinge00rena/page/n7
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For further reading and exploration, many translations are available. Project Gutenberg provides an EBook version online. see Jowett, B. transl. (2013) Plato: Protagoras. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation [Online]. Available at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1591/1591-h/1591-h.htm
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‘Simonides, Lyric Poet, Native of Ceos'. Photographic Book Plate (edited) of Marble Statue. Unknown Artist (undated) Collection of Naples Museum, Italy.
presentation image Publication: Ward, John, and Hill, George Francis, Sir. (1902) Greek Coins and Their Parent Cities. John Murray: London. p.214. Digitised by the Internet Archive, 2008, from the collection of John P. Robarts Research Library, University of Toronto, Canada. With funding from Microsoft Corporation. this work is in the public-domain (pd) https://archive.org/details/greekcoinstheirp00warduoft/page/n313h
'THE ABDUCTION OF DEIANIRA'
William Hamilton (1770–80)
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'THE ABDUCTION OF DEIANIRA'
William Hamilton (1770–80)
FURTHER READING
Liz Greene is the author of many books on astrological, psychological and mythological themes, which have been translated into a number of languages.
In the publications outlined below, she looks in more detail at the intertwined strands discussed in this seminar, as well as wider themes of the conference.
Chiron in Love
Chiron’s story is most clearly and poignantly enacted in our most personal exchanges with the people closest to us. This work includes a background of mythic material about Chiron that can help to shed light on the interaction between Chiron in one horoscope and the planets and angles in another.
The emphasis is on the individual and the necessity of working as honestly and insightfully as possible with the feelings of envy, rage, bitterness, and potential wisdom and compassion reflected by Chiron’s complex story. Astrology students of all levels will find Liz Greene’s insights invaluable in working with this paradoxical and challenging astrological symbol.
The Astrology of Envy, Rage, Compassion and Wisdom
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Jung's Studies in Astrology
An historical survey of Jung’s astrological work from the time he began to study the subject. It is based not only on his published writings, but also on the correspondence and documents found in his private archives, many of which have never previously seen the light of day.
Liz Greene addresses with thoroughness and detailed scholarship the nature of Jung’s involvement with astrology: the ancient, medieval, and modern sources he drew on, the individuals from whom he learned, his ideas about how and why it worked, its religious and philosophical implications, and its applications in the treatment of his patients as well as in his own self-understanding.
The Astrological World of Jung's Liber Novus
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The Astrological World of Jung’s 'Liber Novus'
In The Astrological World of Jung’s Liber Novus, Liz Greene explores the planetary journey Jung portrayed in this remarkable work and investigates the ways in which he used astrological images and themes as an interpretive lens to help him understand the nature of his visions and the deeper psychological meaning behind them.
Greene’s analysis includes a number of mythic and archetypal elements, including the stories of Salome, Siegfried and Elijah, and demonstrates that astrology, as Jung understood and worked with it, is unquestionably one of the most important foundation stones of analytical psychology, and an essential part of understanding his legacy.
Daimons, Gods, and the Planetary Journey
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ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
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‘The Abduction of Deianira.’ Hamilton, William. (1770–80) Pen and black ink over graphite, with watercolour. Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Classification: Drawings. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2015.
image Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Reproduced through open access policy cc0 1.0 license. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/670269
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‘El Cielo de Salamanca (The Sky Over Salamanca).’ (Detail of centaur related to Chiron). Gallego, Fernando (c. 1480) Ceiling painting. Universidad de Salamanca.
web page image Photograph: Universidad de Salamanca and Google Arts & Culture (2018). This work is in the Public Domain. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/UgWRhHBcepIpqw
'THE ABDUCTION OF DEIANIRA'
William Hamilton (1770–80)
'THE ABDUCTION OF DEIANIRA'
William Hamilton (1770–80)
'THE ABDUCTION OF DEIANIRA'
William Hamilton (1770–80)
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