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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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 01.8.6: Attic black-figure Siana cup by the C Painter, with fountain house, Achilleus pursuing Troilos and fleeing Polyxena Metropolitan Museum Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦ Paris, Musee du Louvre, CA 6113: Attic black-figure Siana cup by … Continue reading Troilos and Lykaon (page 599, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ London, British Museum. 1969,1215.1: Protocorinthian aryballos by the Evelyn Painter with warrior in armor (Achilleus ?) walking behind unarmed horseback rider (Troilos ?) British Museum ♦ Athens, Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum 1319: Protocorinthian aryballos, with Achilleus in pursuit of Troilos Pierre … Continue reading Troilos and Lykaon (page 598, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Dion Chrysostomos of Prusa 59 Greek Text ♠ Sophokles, Philoktetes 263-70 I am he whom the two marshalls and the Cephallenian king [265] shamelessly hurled to this solitude which you see, when I was wasting with a fierce disease, stricken by the savage bite of the … Continue reading The Journey to Troy: Philoktetes and Tennes (page 590, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 9.666-68 And Patroclus laid him down on the opposite side, and by him in like manner lay fair-girdled Iphis, whom goodly Achilles had given him when he took steep Scyrus, the city of Enyeus. Greek Text ♦ Lost painting from … Continue reading The First Mobilization at Aulis (page 581, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.689-712 To him the God, “ A famous Naiad dwelt among the Hamadryads, on the cold Arcadian summit Nonacris, whose name was Syrinx. Often she escaped the Gods, that wandered in the groves of sylvan shades, and often fled from Satyrs that … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Hermes (page 111, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Nauplia, Archaeological Museum 4509: terra-cotta votive shield from Tiryns with Herakles (or Achilleus?) seizing helmet crest of an Amazon (Hipppolyte or Penthesileia?) who wears a broad belt; to upper right of Amazon, a vulture; on lower right, a second Amazon; on lower left, … Continue reading Labor IX: The Belt of Hippolyte (page 397 lower, with art)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Sappho 58 LP – Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, pp. 41-42, ed. E. Lobel and D. L. Page. Oxford 1955 ♠ Mimnermos 4 W – Iambi et Elegi Graeci 2, p. 84, ed. M. L. West. Oxford 1972 To Tithonos he gave to … Continue reading The Titans (page 37, with art)
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