Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Paestum, Museo Nazionale Archeologico: metope from the Heraion alla Foce del Sele, with Orestes trying to defend himself from serpentine Erinys? Wikimedia Digital LIMC (under scene 17; no photo) ♦ Paestum, Museo Nazionale Archeologico: metope from the Heraion alla … Continue reading Orestes’ Revenge (page 679, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Vatican Museums, Belvedere 1059: Marble group from Golden House of Nero, Rome, of Laokoon and his two sons under attack by two snakes Wikimedia Digital LIMC (no photos) Vatican Museums ♠ Homer, Odyssey 4.271-89 What a thing was this, too, … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 649, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Apollodoros, Epitome 5.16-19 And at break of day, when the Trojans beheld the camp of the Greeks deserted and believed that they had fled, they with great joy dragged the horse, and stationing it beside the palace of Priam deliberated … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 648, 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 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ΣA Iliad 2.494 – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Vol. I, pp. 112-14. Oxford 1875. Greek Text ♦ Paris, Musée du Louvre E699: Laconian black-figure cup with Kadmos (?) at fountain house with two snakes (see also p. 600) Wikimedia … Continue reading Kadmos (page 470, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 106349: Laconian black-figure cup with fountain house and snake at feet of armed Achilleus in ambush; in exergue, mounted Troilos and Polyxena P. Zancani Montuoro, “L’agguato a Troilo nella ceramica laconica,” Bollettino d’Arte 39 (1954), … Continue reading Troilos and Lykaon (page 600, with art)
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