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)
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)
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: “Ajax … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 655, with art)
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ London, British Museum 3205: Boiotian bronze fibula, with front legs and neck of Trojan Horse (on the right); legs have wheels instead of hooves British Museum Digital LIMC ♦ Mykonos, Archaeological Museum 2240: Relief pithos with Trojan Horse filled with … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 654, with art)
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ 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 Pottery Database Digital LIMC Tags: #Neoptolemos #Eurypylos Artistic sources edited by Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, … Continue reading The Last Events before the Sack (page 641, with art)
Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina 44701: Attic red-figure volute krater with Neoptolemos (center), his grandfather Lykomedes (far left) and his mother Deidameia (to right of Lykomedes); and with Odysseus and Phoinix (far right) Flickr; Lykomedes, Deidameia, Neoptolemos and Odysseus (on … Continue reading The Last Events before the Sack (page 640, with art)
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)
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