Aineias (page 715, with art)

Chapter 17, The Return from Troy

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♠ Stesichoros, Iliou Persis 205 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, pp. 205-6, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.

Paris, Louvre F122: Attic black-figure eye cup with armed Aineias fleeing Troy, carrying his father Anchises on his back and accompanied by his son Askanios, whose legs are visible behind Aineias  

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Two details from O. Benndorf, Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archaeologische Übungen (1890/91) pl. 5

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Würzburg University, Martin von Wagner Museum L218: Attic black-figure neck amphora with armed Aineias carrying Anchises on his back while his father looks back at a structure (their home?); Aineias is coaxing Askanios to leave his dog behind, as a man sitting on a palmetto distracts the dog

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Berlin, Antikensammlung F1862: fragmentary Attic black-figure neck amphora with armed Aineias fleeing Troy with Anchises on his back; Askanios and a woman who holds a staff or spear race ahead; behind Aineias is another warrior 

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Würzburg University, Martin von Wagner Museum L212: Attic black-figure neck amphora with armed Aineias carrying Anchises on his back while his father looks back at a woman (Aphrodite?); behind Aineias, a dog; to right of Aineias, grieving woman (Kreousa?)

E. Langlotz, Griechische Vasen in Würzburg (1932), pl. 57

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Munich, Antikensammlungen 1546: Attic black-figure neck amphora with (side A above) Aineias carrying Anchises on his back, while one woman with a child runs to right ahead of Aineias (Aphrodite and Askanios?), and another woman behind Aineias runs to left with a second child (Kreousa and brother of Askanios?); on side B below, beheaded Medousa collapses while Perseus flies away with Medousa’s head in his kibisis, and Athena encourages Perseus

E. Gerhard, Auserlesene Griechische Vasenbilder, hauptsächlich Etruskischen Fundorts (Band 3): Heroenbilder, meistens homerisch (1847), pl. 216

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Tarquinia, Museo Nazionale RC 976: Attic black-figure neck amphora with armed Aineias carrying Anchises, while his wife Kreousa (also called Eurydike) with Askanios in her arms and a Trojan archer precede Aineias, and Aphrodite?, with her arm raised in encouragement, stands behind Aineias

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♦ Paris, Cabinet des Médailles Lu 276: Etruscan scarab with a nude, kneeling Aineias with shield and spear, who supports Anchises on his shoulder; Anchises holds a cista, presumably containing sacred objects

N. Horsfall, “Stesichorus at Bovillae?”, Journal of Hellenic Studies 99 (1979), pl. 3b

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Munich, Antikensammlungen 3185: Etruscan red-figure amphora with an armed Aineias carrying Anchises on his shoulder; Askanios walks ahead of his father, holding the hand of his mother Kreousa, who carries luggage? on her head

E. Gerhard, Auserlesene Griechische Vasenbilder, hauptsächlich Etruskischen Fundorts (Band 3): Heroenbilder, meistens homerisch (1847), pl. 217

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New York, American Numismatic Society 1950.53.5: Greek silver tetradrachm minted at Aineia with Aineias carrying Anchises, and Kreousa carrying a child

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Artistic sources edited by Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, November 2022

Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, April 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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