Orestes’ Revenge (page 684, with art)

Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page   Table of Contents   Next Page ♦ Villa Giulia, Rome (ex-Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 1977.713): shoulder of Attic red-figure lekythos with Klytaimestra with axe, who is restrained by Telamedes; then Orestes stabs enthroned Aigisthos Museum of Fine Arts Beazley Archive Pottery Database (no photo) Attic … Continue reading Orestes’ Revenge (page 684, with art)

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Agamemnon (page 675, with art)

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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Agamemnon (page 671, with art)

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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Agamemnon (page 670, with art)

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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Agamemnon (page 669, with art)

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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Agamemnon (page 668, with art)

Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page   Table of Contents   Next Page ♠ Stesichoros 223 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 120 ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962. ♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 176 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 84-85, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967. ♠ … Continue reading Agamemnon (page 668, with art)

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