Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Palermo, Museo Nazionale B335: Attic black-figure skyphos with Odysseus? being carried on back of large turtle away from mouth of Charybdis, which is shown as a fig tree on an overhanging rock; Odysseus lies clasping turtle’s back as it … Continue reading Odysseus (page 710, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ British Museum B103.19: Klazomenian black-figure fragment from Naukratis with five rowers in a boat and wing on upper left (= Odysseus’ men and a Seiren?) British Museum ♦ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 01.8100: Late Corinthian aryballos, Odysseus bound … Continue reading Odysseus (page 709, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Aristotle, Poetics 15.1454a An example of unnecessary badness of character is Menelaos in the Orestes; of character that is unfitting and inappropriate the lament of Odysseus in the Scylla and Melanippe’s speech; of inconsistent character Iphigeneia in Aulis, for the suppliant Iphigeneia is … Continue reading Odysseus (page 708, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseum 1963.1: Attic red-figure by the Tyszkiewicz Painter with Diomedes and Odysseus, each with Palladion, and Athena intervening Digital LIMC Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦ Paris, Louvre K36: Apulian red-figure oinochoe with Athena, Odysseus with Palladion, Diomedes with Palladion, … Continue reading The Last Events before the Sack (page 645, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Konon FGrH 26F1.34 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 201-2, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Σ Aen 2.166 – Servius, Scholia to Vergil, Aeneid – Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii Carmina commentarii: Aeneis … Continue reading The Last Events before the Sack (page 644, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Sophokles, Skyrioi fr 554 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta vol. 4, p. 419, ed. S.L. Radt. Göttingen 1977. for war loves to pursue young men (Transl. E. Bianchelli) ♠ Ph 343-47 – Sophokles, Philoktetes Neoptolemus They came for me in a ship elaborately ornamented, shining … 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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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Paris, Louvre E643: Late Corinthian hydria with mourning over body of Achilleus by Thetis (with her arms around her son’s head) and her sister Nereides; arms of Achilleus under couch on which he is laid Wikimedia Beazley Archive Pottery Database Digital … Continue reading The Fate of Aias (page 632, 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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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pherekydes FGrH 3F123 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 93, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Dik 4.3 – Diktys of Krete, Ephemeriodos Belli Troiani Achilles found Penthesilae among the cavalry and, hurling his spear, hit the mark. Then – … Continue reading Penthesileia and Memnon (page 622, with art)
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