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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)Bulfinch, Thomas

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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)

Name: The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)
Author: Bulfinch, Thomas

Bulfinch, Thomas

English poetry; Mythology, Classical; Mythology, Norse

Perhaps the moment when Ajax retreats. Hector presses upon him
    followed by a youth with a torch. At the extreme right, Paris
    drawing a bow.

  158.  Supposed Menelaüs with the Body of Patroclus. Ancient
        Marble, Florence: _Baumeister 1, 785_                        298

  159.  Contest of Achilles and Hector. Ancient Vase Painting:
        _Baumeister 1, 788_                                          302

    Left: Athene. Right: Apollo.

  160.  Achilles over the Body of Hector at the Tomb of Patroclus
        (whose shade is running above the tomb). Greek Vase
        Painting:  _P. Gardner, Sculptured Tombs, Fig. 40_           303

  161.  Priam's Visit to Achilles (under whose couch lies the body
        of Hector). Greek Vase Painting: _Baumeister 1, 791_         304

    Achilles has been taking his dinner. Servants bear gifts behind
    Priam.

  162.  Achilles and the Amazon Penthesilea. Greek Vase Painting:
        _Baumeister 3, 2123_                                         307

  163.  [OE]none warning Paris not to sail for Greece. Ancient
        Relief, in the Villa Ludovisi, Rome:
        _Baumeister 2, 1360_                                         309

  164.  The Wooden Horse. Ancient Gem: _Baumeister 1, 794_           310

  165, 166. The Sack of Troy. Greek Vase Painting, Naples:
        _Baumeister 1, 795_                                312, 313

    Priam on altar, Astyanax on his lap, and Polites, whom Pyrrhus
    has just killed, at his feet. Pyrrhus is about to strike Priam.
    Behind him rushes Andromache to strike a kneeling soldier.
    Below, under the palm tree, sits Hecuba facing the statue of
    Minerva (a Palladium) behind which Helen is seen to cower. In
    front Cassandra clings to the statue, while Ajax, striding
    over the body of her dead lover, tries to drag her away by the
    hair. To the left, Æneas, with Anchises in his arms, and little
    Ascanius are hastening away.

  167.  Orestes and Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon. Greek Vase
        Painting: _Baumeister 3, 1939_                               315

  168.  Orestes pursued by Furies. Greek Vase Painting:
        _Baumeister 2, 1313_                                         316

  169.  Orestes and Pylades before the King of the Tauri (Iphigenia
        as a priestess on the steps of the temple). Wall Painting
        from Pompeii, Naples: _Springer,
        Kunstgeschichte, 1, 529_                                     316

  170.  Ulysses offering the Cyclops Wine. Ancient Statuette in the
        Vatican: _Baumeister 2, 1251_                                318

  171.  Boring out the Cyclops' Eye. From an Attic Vase:
        _P. Gardner, Grammar of Greek Art, p. 225_                   322

  172.  Ulysses and Two Companions under the Rams. Greek Vase
        Painting: _Harrison-Maccoll, Plate XXIX_                     323

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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)

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