History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
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History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
Mythology, Classical, in art; Pottery, Ancient; Pottery, Etruscan; Pottery, Greek; Pottery, Roman
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.
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PLATE LIV
[Illustration:
From _Furtwaengler and Reichhold_.
THE SACK OF TROY; KYLIX BY BRYGOS IN LOUVRE.
]
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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.
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