Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Olympia Museum B 4900: Kretan fragmentary bronze mitra with Orestes drawing his sword to slay his mother Klytaimestra, or Menelaos intending to slay Helen Reconstruction drawing of mitra (left portion beyond broken edge is restored with a figure of … Continue reading Orestes’ Revenge (page 678, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Euripides, Orestes 25-26 who slew her husband, after snaring him in an inextricable robe. Greek Text ♠ Euripides, Orestes 366-67 “Menelaus, your brother lies dead, plunged in a fatal bath, the last his wife will ever give him.” Greek … Continue reading Agamemnon (page 675, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 63.1246: Attic red-figure calyx krater by the Dokimasia Painter with murders of Agamemnon and Aigisthos; in the center of side A, Aigisthos slays Agamemnon, who is encased in a net-like garment; on the left, … Continue reading Agamemnon (page 671, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection BS 318: relief from terracotta band, reputedly from Sicily, possibly with the boiling of Minos, who is in the lebes of a tripod, as a female (a daughter of Kokalos?) seizes Minos’ arm while … Continue reading Agamemnon (page 670, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Athens, National Museum 15131: bronze sheathing from Argive Heraion with Klytaimestra seizing lock of hair of Kassandra while stabbing her in the waist C.W. Blegen, “Prosymna: Remains of Post-Mycenaean Date,” American Journal of Archaeology 43 (1939) fig. 6 p.416 … Continue reading Agamemnon (page 669, 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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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 ♠ 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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