Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 20.300-308 Nay, come, let us head him forth from out of death, lest the son of Cronos be anywise wroth, if so be Achilles slay him; for it is ordained unto him to escape, that the race … Continue reading Aineias (page 714, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Palermo, Museo Nazionale B335: Attic black-figure skyphos with Odysseus? being carried on back of large turtle away from mouth of Charybdis, which is shown as a fig tree on an overhanging rock; Odysseus lies clasping turtle’s back as it … Continue reading Odysseus (page 710, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Aristotle, Poetics 15.1454a An example of unnecessary badness of character is Menelaos in the Orestes; of character that is unfitting and inappropriate the lament of Odysseus in the Scylla and Melanippe’s speech; of inconsistent character Iphigeneia in Aulis, for the suppliant Iphigeneia is … Continue reading Odysseus (page 708, 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 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: Ionian hydria called “Ricci Hydria”, with Zeus seated and holding scales; before him, Eos and Thetis begging for their sons’ lives; farther to right, fight of Achilleus and Memnon Flickr photo by Dan Diffendale Flickr … Continue reading Penthesileia and Memnon (page 624, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Aischylos, Laios Fr 122 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Vol. 3, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985 to expose [a child] in a pot (Transl. by Elena Bianchelli) Greek Text: χυτριζειν Sophokles, OT (Oidipous Tyrannos) 717-19 And the child’s birth was not yet three days past, when Laius … Continue reading Oidipous (page 492, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page 10 GLP – Select Papyri III, pp. 60-71 Greek Text and Translation Euripides, pp. 410-11 N2 Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. A. Nauck, 2nd edition. Leipzig 1889 Greek Text ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung, F3296: Sicilian red-figure calyx krater with punishment of Dirke by bull (upper left); inside cave (on the … Continue reading Antiope, Amphion, and Zethos (page 485, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Diodorus Siculus 3.64.3-4 The third Dionysus, they say, was born in Boeotian Thebes of Zeus and Semelê, the daughter of Cadmus. The myth runs as follows: Zeus had become enamoured of Semelê and often, lured by her beauty, had consorted with her, but Hera, being jealous … Continue reading Semele and Ino (page 476, 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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