Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Naples, Museo Nazionale 81669 (H2422): Attic red-figure hydria by Kleophrades Painter with Sack of Troy, including armed Aineias carrying Anchises, with Askanios leading the way (for rescue of aged Aithra by her grandsons Demophon and Akamas from same vase, … Continue reading Aineias (page 716, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Stesichoros, Iliou Persis 205 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, pp. 205-6, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962. ♦ Paris, Louvre F122: Attic black-figure eye cup with armed Aineias fleeing Troy, carrying his father Anchises on his back and accompanied by his son Askanios, whose legs are … Continue reading Aineias (page 715, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Naples, Museo Nazionale 81669 (H2422): Attic red-figure hydria by Kleophrades Painter with Sack of Troy, including Priam seated on altar with body of Asyanax on his lap; Neoptolemos seizes Priam’s shoulder in preparation for slaying him; behind him, dead Trojan … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 657 upper, with art)
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A B C D E G H I K L M N O P R S T W Z Zeus, Munich, Antikensammlungen 596 There are two kinds of searches possible for this web site. The first type, which is comprehensive, involves just entering a mythological character’s name in the search box over the left menu … Continue reading Subject tags for mythological characters
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ New York, Metropolitan Museum, 11.213.2: Attic red figure lekythos by the Meidias Painter with Aphrodite, Eros, Chrysippos and Pompe Aphrodite, Eros and Chrysippos (all named) Unnamed woman and Aphrodite Chrysippos and Pompe (named) Metropolitan Museum Beazley Archive Pottery Database Digital LIMC ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung, 1968.12: … Continue reading Laios (page 490, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Aischylos, Agamemnon 403-8 Chorus But she, bequeathing to her people the clang of shield and spear and army of fleets, and bringing to Ilium destruction in place of dowry, with light step she passed through the gates—daring a deed undareable. Greek Text … Continue reading The Abduction of Helen (page 574, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Odyssey 4.12-14 for to Helen the gods vouchsafed issue no more after that she had at the first borne her lovely child, Hermione, who had the beauty of golden Aphrodite. Greek Text ♠ Kinaithon fr 3 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, … Continue reading The Abduction of Helen (page 573, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.19.5 ”There is also Hermes bringing to Alexander the son of Priam the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being: “Here is Hermes, who is showing to Alexander, that he may arbitrate … Continue reading The Judgment of Paris (page 569, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Kypria Philodemos: fr 2 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 45, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987. ♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 204 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 99-105, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967. ♠ Akousilaos 2F39 – … Continue reading The Judgment of Paris (page 568, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Euripides 9 GLP – Fragments of more recent Greek literary papyri cited according to D. L. Page, Select Papyri III. London 1941. ♠ Euripides, Troades 920-22 next, old Priam ruined Troy and me, because he did not slay his child Alexander, baleful semblance … Continue reading The Birth and Childhood of Paris (page 563, with art)
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