Classical Mythology
THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 469 Dione goes on to name gods who have been wounded by mortals. Finally Zeus, alerted by Athena a ...
470 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE ILIAD Since the Iliad, if not before, war has served as one of ...
THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 471 ACHILLES AND PENTHESILEA After the funeral of Hector the fighting resumed, and Achilles killed ...
472 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS the aftermath of the war involved the sacrifice of a maiden before the Greek army just ...
THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 473 THE DEATHS OF PARIS AND PRIAM After Achilles' death, Odysseus captured Helenus, who told the G ...
The Building of the Trojan Horse, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804). Oil on canvas, 1773; 15 x 26 in. This is part of a s ...
THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 475 Demodocus is the basis for Vergil's detailed account of the sack of Troy in the second book of ...
476 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The Sack of Troy. Attic red-figure hydria by the Kleophrades painter, ca. 480 B.c.; hei ...
THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 477 murdered with him by Clytemnestra. In Aeschylus' play Agamemnon she fore- sees her own death i ...
478 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Study for "Aeneas' Flight from Troy," by Federico Barocci (ca. 1535-1612). Pen and brow ...
THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 479 Aeneas Carrying Anchises. Attic red-figure krater, ca. 460 B.c.; height Y7^3 /± in. The econ- ...
480 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS ..." With these words I spread my cloak and the skin of a tawny lion across my shoulder ...
THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 481 Similar magic was practiced by Demeter at Eleusis on the child Demophoôn. Nowhere does Homer ...
CHAPTER 20 THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY The returns of the Greek leaders from Troy were narrated in an epic called Nos- toi (Retu ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 483 Diomedes founded several cities in Italy, but he declined to help King Latinus against Aeneas. A ...
484 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS property is being wasted by suitors, and his son is the intended victim of a plot. He r ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 485 Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus, by Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711). Oil on canvas, 1 ...
486 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Calypso and Ulysses, by Emily Marshall. Watercolor on paper, 1820-1835; 19 X 24 in. Ca- ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 487 THE CICONES AND THE LOTUS EATERS It took Odysseus ten years to reach home. When he and his conti ...
(^488) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The Blinding of Polyphemus. Proto-Attic vase from Eleusis, mid-seventh century B.c.; ...
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