Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Euripides, Orestes 1653-57 And it is destined, Orestes, that you will marry Hermione, at whose neck you are holding your sword; [1655] Neoptolemus shall never marry her, though he thinks he will; for he is fated to die by … Continue reading Neoptolemos (page 693, with art)
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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 Priam seated on altar with body of Asyanax on his lap; Neoptolemos seizes Priam’s shoulder in preparation for slaying him; behind him, dead Trojan … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 657 upper, 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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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Diktys Cretensis, De Bello Troiano 5.4 When the king had left, they decided that Antenor should return to the Greeks and learn what terms they wanted exactly; and that Aeneas, as he desired, should go along too. Thus the council … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 654, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Sophokles, Eurypylos fr 211 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 4, p. 205, ed. S.L. Radt. Göttingen 1977. ♦ Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection BS 498: Attic black-figure hydria with Neoptolemos, having slain Eurypylos, in the act of killing Eurypylos’ charioteer Beazley Archive … Continue reading The Last Events before the Sack (page 641, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Sophokles, Skyrioi fr 554R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta vol. 4, p. 419, ed. S.L. Radt. Göttingen 1977. for war loves to pursue young men (Transl. E. Bianchelli) ♠ Sophokles, Philoktetes 343-47 Neoptolemus They came for me in a ship elaborately ornamented, … Continue reading The Last Events before the Sack (page 640, with art)
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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)
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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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