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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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Olympia, Archaeological Museum B 847: bronze shield-band relief with Neoptolemos and Astyanax? E. Kunze, Archaische Schildbänder. Olympische Forschungen 2 (1950) pl. 29 Digital LIMC ♦ Olympia, Archaeological Museum B 160: fragmentary bronze shield-band relief with Neoptolemos attacking Priam with a spear; … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 656, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Chest of Kypselos from temple of Hera at Olympia (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions) ♠ Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.19.5 Ajax too is represented dragging Cassandra from the image of Athena, and by him is also an inscription: … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 655, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Diktys Cretensis, De Bello Troiano 5.4 When the king had left, they decided that Antenor should return to the Greeks and learn what terms they wanted exactly; and that Aeneas, as he desired, should go along too. Thus the council … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 654, 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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