CL 28 - Classical Mythology

Lecture 27 - The Sack and the Returns

Penthesilea
Amazons
Scaean Gate
Ajax the greater (son of Telamon)
Ajax the lesser (son of Oileus)
Calchas
Neoptolemus
palladium
Philoctetes
Diomedes
Idomeneus
Sinon
Laocoon
Cassandra
Polyxena
Deiphobus
Astyanax
Anchises
Aeneas
Ascanius 

Nostoi (returns)
Menelaus
Proteus
Nestor
Diomedes
Phthia
Hermione
Epirus, king of the Molossi

IMAGES

• Menelaus, equipped as a hoplite, recovers Helen at Troy (sword drawn to kill her). Aphrodite stands behind Helen removing the veil, behind the goddess, stand Chryseis and Chryses. Attic Red-figure skyphos signed both by Hieron (potter) and Makron, ca. 485. Side B. H. 21.5 cm, Diam. 27.9 cm. MFA 13.186. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Plate 166 below
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• Aeneas escapes from Troy with his father Anchises on his shoulders and carrying the palladium or the statuette of the lares. Terracotta statuette of probable Etruscan manufacture - c. 5th c. BCE
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• Sparta: a view of the Menelaion, a hero shrine to Menelaus and Helen located on the possible site of a Mycenaean palace.
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• Death of Neoptolemos, son of Achilles - murdered by Orestes on the altar of Apollo in Delphi. Late Classical red figure amphora.
  

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