CL 28 - Classical Mythology

Lectures 24-26 - The Trojan War

Achilles
Thetis, a sea goddess, Achilles' mother
Peleus, Achilles's father
Eris, goddess of strife
King Priam, ruler of Troy
Queen Hecabe (Hecuba) of Troy
Paris, their son (Alexander)
Hector, Paris's brother
Andromache, his wife
Astyanax, their son
King Menelaus, king of Sparta
Helen, his wife, the most beautiful woman in the world
Leda, Helen's mother
Castor and Pollux (Polydeuces) the Dioscuri
Clytemnestra
Tyndareus, their mortal father
Odysseus, King of Ithaca
Agamemnon, King of Mycenae
Nestor, King of Pylos
Calchas, prophet
Iphigeneia
Patroclus
Phoenix
Neoptolemus
Diomedes of Tiryns/Argos (son of Tydeus)
Ajax, the greater (son of Telamon of Salamis)
Ajax, the lesser (son of Oileus of Locris)
Idomeneus, king of Crete
Philoctetes
Cassandra, princess of Troy
Laocoon, priest of Troy
Sinon
Aeneas, son of Anchises, father of Ascanius
Polyxena
Polydorus
Glaucus and Sarpedon, princes of Lycia
Memnon, ruler of Ethiopia
Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons
Deiphobus

 Hellenes, Danaans, Argives, Achaeans, Trojans
Chryses - Chryseis - briseis
Scaean Gate
Palladion / Palladium

IMAGES

• Roman wall painting of Leda and the swan.
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• Peleus and Thetis. Vase Painting.
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• Judgment of Paris,  painting by Renoir, c. 1914
  
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• Paris / Alexander, equipped as a hoplite, with the support of Aeneas, takes Helen away from Sparta. Aphrodite adorns her with a veil as Peitho helps. Eros flies between the couple. Attic Red-figure skyphos signed both by Hieron (potter) and Makron, ca. 485. Side A. H. 21.5 cm, Diam. 27.9 cm. MFA 13.186
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• Achilles hides on the island of Scyros, painting by Poussin (1653-54).
  
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• Tondo: Phoenix and Bryseis in Achilles' tent. She pours him wine (for a libation?) from an oinochoe into a patera. Attic Red-figure kylix by Brygos (signed) and the Brygos Painter, 480 - 475. H. 13.5 cm, Diam. 32.5 cm. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Plate 148
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• Achilles and Ajax (gaming) play a board game. Detail of Attic Black-figure belly amphora signed by Exekias, ca. 530. Names, expletives, and kalos (ONESITORIDES) inscription around figures. Achilles (R) calls "four" while Ajax (L) calls "three". Side B. H. 61 cm. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmer Verlag, Munich: 1981. Color Plate XXV
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• Tondo: Achilles bandages Patroclus' arm. Both are equipped as hoplites. Attic Red-figure kylix by Sosias and the Sosias Painter, ca. 500. H. 10 cm., Diam. 32 cm. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Plate 117
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• Death of Sarpedon. Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death) carry away the body of Sarpedon as Hermes (center) looks on. Names between figures. Attic Red-Figure kalyx krater signed by Euxitheos as potter and Euphronios as painter. Ca. 510 BCE. H. 45.8 cmCarratelli, G. P., ed. The Greek World: Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily. New York: Rizzoli, 1996. p. 92
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• Attic Black-figure hydria, ca. 520 BC: Achilles drags Hector past Priam and Hecuba toward the Tumulus of Patroklos. Attributed to the Antiope Group. H: 0.566 m. Diam.:0.33 m. MFA: 63.473
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• Attic Black-figure neck amphora by Exekias, ca. 530. Detail: Achilles slays the Amazon queen Penthesilea. Names, artist's signature, and kalos ([ONESi-] TORIDES) inscription. Side A. H. 41.3 cm. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Color Plate XXVI
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• Detail of the neck relief on an early 7th c. earthenware amphora from Mykonos; the Trojan Horse. Lessing, Eric et al. The Voyages of Ulysses. Macmillan, London: 1965. Plate 48
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• Shoulder: Ilioupersis scene (Neoptolemus [equipped as hoplite] slaying Priam, who holds the corpse of Astyanax, on an altar of Zeus Herkeios). Attic Red-figure hydria by the Kleophrades Painter, 480 - 475. H. 36.3 cm., Diam. 31.8 cm.Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Plate 128 above

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