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 rescue of aged Aithra by her grandsons Demophon and Akamas (for Kassandra and Aias from same vase, see Gantz page 655; for the death … Continue reading Aftermath: The Recovery of Aithra and and Sacrifice of Polyxena (page 658, with art)
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseum 1963.1: Attic red-figure by the Tyszkiewicz Painter with Diomedes and Odysseus, each with Palladion, and Athena intervening Digital LIMC Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦ Paris, Louvre K36: Apulian red-figure oinochoe with Athena, Odysseus with Palladion, Diomedes with Palladion, … Continue reading The Last Events before the Sack (page 645, with art)
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Konon 26F1.34 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 201-2, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Servius, Scholia at Vergil, Aeneid 2.166 – Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii Carmina commentarii: Aeneis, ed. G. Thilo and … Continue reading The Last Events before the Sack (page 644, with art)
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3695: Attic red-figure cup by Douris; on side A of exterior, Aias and Odysseus’ dispute over arms of Achilleus, with Agamemnon in center; on side B of exterior, vote over arms, with Athena in center, Odysseus on … Continue reading The Fate of Aias (page 633, with art)
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Lactantius Placidus, scholia at Statius: Achilleis 1.134 – Lactantii Placidi qui dicitur commentarios in Statii Thebaida et commentarium in Achilleida 3, pp. 492-93, ed. R. Jahnke. Leipzig 1898. Latin Text ♠ Lactantius Placidus, scholia at Statius: Achilleis 1.269 – Lactantii Placidi qui dicitur commentarios … Continue reading The Death of Achilleus (page 626, with art)
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Florence, Museo Nazionale Archeologico 4209: Attic black-figure volute krater by Kleitias and Ergotimos (François Krater), with chariot race from the funeral games of Patroklos, officiated by Achilleus (second band from top) Flickr From right to left, Achilleus stands next to tripod, facing … Continue reading The Events of the Iliad (page 620, with art)
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
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Dion Chrysostomos of Prusa 59 Greek Text ♠ Sophokles, Philoktetes 263-70 I am he whom the two marshalls and the Cephallenian king [265] shamelessly hurled to this solitude which you see, when I was wasting with a fierce disease, stricken by the savage bite of the … Continue reading The Journey to Troy: Philoktetes and Tennes (page 590, with art)
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnes 332 – Scholia Graeca in Aristophanem, ed. F. Dübner, p. 12. Paris 1877. Greek Text ♦ London, British Museum, E382: Attic red-figure pelike with Agamemnon gesturing towards wounded Telephos, who sits on altar holding Orestes British Museum Beazley Archive Pottery … Continue reading The First Mobilization at Aulis (page 579, with art)
Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Throne of Apollo at Amyklai (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions of whole throne) ♠ Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.18.12 There is… Heracles avenging himself upon Diomedes the Thracian. Greek Text Plan and reconstruction of whole throne from R. Martin, “Bathyclès de … Continue reading Labor VIII: The Mares of Diomedes (page 395 lower, with art)