The Judgment of Paris (page 568, with art) – Gantz, Early Greek Myth (1993)

Chapter 16, The Trojan War

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♠ Kypria Philodemos: fr 2 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 45, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.

♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 204 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 99-105, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.

♠ Akousilaos 2F39 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 56-57, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.

Greek Text

♦ Athens, National Museum 15368 in Digital LIMC (not 16368, as Gantz): ivory comb from Sparta, Paris with apple in judgment, and three goddesses (from left to right Hera, Athena and Aphrodite)

R.M. Dawkins, The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (1929), pl. 127

Digital LIMC

♦ Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 22679: Protocorinthian olpe (the Chigi Vase), Judgment of Paris, with Paris (on left), Hermes (missing except for kerykeion), Hera (only crown of head preserved), Athena and Aphrodite (names inscribed)

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♦ Chest of Kypselos from temple of Hera at Olympia (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions)

♠ Pausanias Description of Greece 5.19.5:

There is also Hermes bringing to Alexander the son of Priam the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being: “Here is Hermes, who is showing to Alexander, that he may arbitrate concerning their beauty, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite” Greek Text

Detail of judgment of Paris, from reconstruction of chest of Kypselos (lost monument once in temple of Hera, Olympia) by W. von Massow, “Die Kypseloslade,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilungvol. 41 (1916), pl. 1.

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