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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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Euripides, Elektra 1238-63 The Dioskouroi appear from above. Dioskouroi Son of Agamemnon, listen; the twin sons of Zeus, your mother’s brothers, [1240]Castor and his brother Polydeuces, are calling you. Having just now calmed the swell of the sea, terrible for … Continue reading Orestes’ Revenge (page 683, with art)
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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 ♠ Homer, Odyssey 3.307 but in the eighth came as his bane the goodly Orestes back from Athens Greek Text ♠ Scholia at Homer, Odyssey 3.307 – Scholia Graeca in Homeris Odysseam, vol. 1, p. 149, ed. W. Dindorf. Oxford 1855. Greek … Continue reading Orestes’ Revenge (page 677, 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 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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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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