Neoptolemos (page 693, with art)

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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The Fall of Troy (page 656, with art)

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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The Fall of Troy (page 655, with art)

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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The Last Events before the Sack (page 641, with art)

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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