The Trojan Cycle
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) and Birch, Samuel
R.F. B.M. E 336, E 470; Reinach, i. 221, 338 = Roscher, ii. pp. 985, 981; Bourguignon Sale Cat. 33.
Late. B.M. F 209; Roscher, ii. p. 983.
(b) Death of Priam and Astyanax.[1422]
(1) Priam only.
B.M. B 241; Röm. Mitth. iii. (1888), pp. 108–9; Reinach, ii. 109; Berlin 3996. [Priam dead in all except second.]
(2) Priam usually seated on altar; Neoptolemos swings body or head of Astyanax.
B.M. B 205; Berlin 2175, 3988; Reinach, i. 221, ii. 109; J.H.S. xiv. pl. 9. [See also under I.]
(3) Andromache or Hecuba with body of Astyanax.
Millin-Reinach, ii. 37 (Lasimos in Louvre; also identified as Archemoros: see p. 118).
(c) Menelaos and Helen.
B.M. E 161, 263; Reinach, i. 437, 3 (Hieron), ii. 34; Helbig, 43 (= Mus. Greg. ii. 49, 2), and ii. p. 325 (= Baumeister, i. p. 746, fig. 798); Millingen, Anc. Uned. Mon. pl. 32; Louvre G 3 (Pamphaios); Reinach, i. 222 = Wiener Vorl. D. 8, 1; Noel des Vergers, Étrurie, iii. pl. 39.
(d) Akamas and Demophon with Aithra.
B.M. B 244 (?), E 458; Overbeck, Her. Bildw. pl. 26, 13.
(e) Flight of Aeneas with family.
B.M. B 173, B 280; Reinach, ii. 110 (= Munich 903), 116, 273; Baumeister, i. p. 31, fig. 32; Helbig, 201 = Mus. Greg. ii. 85, 2; Naples 2481; Bibl. Nat. 261; Louvre F 122 = Wiener Vorl. 1890–91, pl. 5, 1.
(f) Sacrifice of Polyxena.
Plate XXIII. = J.H.S. xviii. pl. 15 (B.M.); Overbeck, Her. Bildw. pl. 27, 19.
(g) Polymestor blinded.
Reinach, i. 91 = Hill, Illustrations of School Classics, p. 170 (now in B.M.).
(h) Ajax stabbing a captive (?).
Reinach, i. 88.
PLATE LIV
From Furtwaengler and Reichhold. The Sack of Troy; Kylix by Brygos in Louvre.
Among the various adventures described by the Cyclic poets in the Νοστοί, few seem to have found their way into the vase-paintings except the fate of Agamemnon, the interview of Menelaos with Proteus (told in the Odyssey), and, of course, the adventures of Odysseus.
The house of Atreus and its story will be dealt with later under the heading of the Oresteia: we turn now to the Odyssey, scenes from which are surprisingly few in Greek art, and appear to have attracted the painter less than the more stirring events of the Iliad. The following, however, have been identified:
Book II. 94 ff. Penelope at her loom.
Reinach, i. 191.
Book III. 12 ff. Arrival of Telemachos at Nestor’s house in Pylos.
Berlin 3289 = Roscher, iii. 298 = Engelmann-Anderson, iii. 13.
Book IV. 349 ff. The story of Menelaos’ interview with Proteus.
Naples 1767 = Mus. Borb. xiii. 58 = Engelmann-Anderson, iv. 22.
Book V. 228 ff. Odysseus navigating the sea on a raft.
Oxford 262, Cat. pl. 26 (burlesque). See also B.M. E 156 (Odysseus and Leukothea).
Book VI. 126 ff. Nausikaa washing clothes.
Munich 420 = Reinach, ii. 110 = Roscher, s.v.
Alkinoös and Nausikaa (parody).
Reinach, i. 153.
Book IX. 345 ff. Odysseus offering wine to Polyphemos.
Boston Mus. Report, 1899, p. 60.
371 ff. Odysseus putting out the eye of Polyphemos.