29/07/2018 THE TROJAN WAR – BACKGROUND AND CAUSES The Troad, region around Troy showing Dardanus, Mount Ida and other sites Map showing Leaders and where they came from Ganymede pouring Zeus a libation, Attic red-figure calyx krater by the Eucharides Painter, c. 490–480 BC, Met Museum Zeus and Ganymede Amasis painter c. 550-540 BC Zeus courting Ganimede c. 450 BC, Pentesilea painter. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Ferrara. Zeus pursuing Ganymede with hoop and cockerel, Berlin painter c. 500 BC The eagle, Ganymede wearing his Phrygian cap, and a third figure, possibly his grieving father, Roman 1 29/07/2018 Ganymede and the eagle Roman marble copy of original of c. 325 BC Ganymede and the eagle c. 160-170 AD Prado Copy of lost drawing by Michelangelo of Ganymede and the eagle 1532, Windsor Laomedon Refusing Payment to Poseidon and Apollo C17th attributed to Joachim von Sandrart or Girolamo Troppa Ganymede by Rubens 1611 and Rembrandt 1635 The Trojan sea-monster fighting with Heracles. Fragment of an Campanian red-figure krater c. 360 BC Heracles and Hesione, mosaic, mid-C3rd, from Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux. Musée Avignon 2 29/07/2018 Hesione abandoned by Hercules in a mural from Pompeii Fresco fragment with Heracles and Hesione Heracles saves Hesione from a C15th miniature Heracles, with Hesione behind, about to kill Laomedon. Terracotta flask The Dying Warrior, fallen Trojan warrior, probably Laomedon, from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Greece c. 505–500 BC Oenone holding pan pipes, Paris and Eros from a sarcophagus with the Judgement of Paris, Roman, Hadrianic period C2nd AD. Palazzo Altemps, Rome 3 29/07/2018 Atreus and Thyestes Manuscript c. 1400 Statue sometimes thought to be Atreus killing the son of Thyestes Atreus and Thyestes Maiolica plate Urbino c. 1540-1550 Etruscan mirror with Leda Atreus and Thyestes on mural in Zákupy Castle, Czechia, c. 1700 Restored Roman statue of Leda and the Swan possibly after Timotheus, Prado Museum Red figure Attic loutrophoros probably showing Leda and the Swan c. 340 BC, Getty Museum Maiolica Plate with Leda and the Swan c. 1551 British Museum 4 29/07/2018 Leda and the Swan by Gustave Moreau c.1870, Paris Leda and the Swan after Michelangelo, C16th copy National Gallery Castor and Polydeuces on krater of c. 700 BC, British Museum Zeus and Hera with the birth of Helen and the Dioscuri, Dutch maiolica, c. 1550, Rotterdam Restored Roman C4th AD statues of the Dioscuri as Horse Tamers in the Piazza del Quirinale, Rome Roman Horse Tamers discovered c. 1560 now on the Capitoline Hill, Rome 5 29/07/2018 • Coin fo An The Dioscuri Roman C1st BC, Prado The Dioscuri Meissen porcelain 1788, Coin of Antiochus VII of Syria c. 135 BC with the Dioscuri British Museum The Dioscuri abducting the daughters of Leucippus, Hamilton vase c. 420-400 BC, British Museum The Dioscuri on C2nd BC relief with Nike Castor on Niobid krater, Louvre Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by Rubens, c. 1618, Alte Pinakothek Munich Odysseus, Menelaus Clytemnestra and Palamedes on an Etruscan mirror from Caere 6 29/07/2018 Aeacus and Telamon by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune. Theseus pursuing a woman, probably Helen from an Attic red-figure bell-krater c. 440–430 BC, Louvre Nereid from the Nereid Monument from Lycia c. 380 BC, British Museum Pele and Thethis (Peleus and Thetis) from an Etruscan bronze mirror c. 350-325 BC from Vulci, British Museum Peleus and Thetis between Chiron and another Nereid from an Attic black-figure Peleus and Thetis on a Boeotian black-figure dish c. 500–475 BC, Louvre amphora c. 510 BC, Munich 7 29/07/2018 Peleus and Thetis c. 350 BC, British Museum Peleus pursues Thetis on an Attic red-figure pyxis c. 460 BC Peleus and Thetis on an Attic red-figured kylix by Douris c. 490 BC from Vulci, Bibliothèque Peleus and Thetis on red figure Attic vessel Nationale de France, Paris Peleus and Thetis on a kylix, Berlin Peleus and Thetis from an Attic red-figure pelike c. 510 BC–500 BC 8 29/07/2018 Peleus and Thetis from an Attic red-figure pelike c. 460 BC found in Bomarzo The Portland Vase Roman C1st BC/AD, Peleus being led by Doris to the reclining Thetis, British Museum Peleus from the Portland Vase The Portland Vase scenes shown flattened out Thetis from the Portland Vase Peleus and Thetis on a red figure pyxis by Wedding Painter, Louvre 9 29/07/2018 Sophilos Dinos showing Peleus welcoming guests including Dionysos, Hebe and Chiron Sophilos Dinos with Marriage of Peleus and Thetis c. 580 Athens, British Museum Judgement of Paris on Boccanera terracotta plaques, Etruscan Cerveteri c. 560-550 BC, Golden Apple of Discord by Jacob Jordaens 1633, Prado British Museum Judgement of Paris on Etruscan bronze mirror C4th-C3rd BC, Louvre Helen preparing to depart with Paris on Boccanera terracotta plaques, Etruscan Cerveteri c. 560-550 BC, British Museum 10 29/07/2018 Judgement of Paris on Etruscan bronze mirror, Museo Archeologico, Siena Parody of the Judgement of Paris on an Etruscan cista c. 325-300 BC, British Museum Judgement of Paris on an Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora by Swing Painter c. 540-530 BC, Metropolitan Museum Judgement of Paris from an Attic black-figure hydria c. 520–510 BC, Louvre Judgement of Paris on Black Figure Amphora c.575-500 BC, Lyon Judgement of Paris Black Figure Column Krater by Lydos c. 560-540 BC, British Museum 11 29/07/2018 Judgement of Paris Black Figure Column Krater by Lydos c. 560-540 BC, British Museum Judgement of Paris from an Attic Black Figure Amphora c. 510 BC, Munich Judgement of Paris from an Attic black-figure amphora by the Witt Painter c. 560-550 BC, Louvre Judgement of Paris from an Attic Black Figure Hydria c. 510 BC from Vulci, Munich Hermes asking Paris to arbitrate from a Lucanian Red Figure Calyx Krater c. 380 BC Judgement of Paris from an Etruscan Black Figure Amphora c. 530 BC, Munich 12 29/07/2018 Judgement of Paris from Red Figure Hydria c. 470 BC, British Museum Judgement of Paris from a White Ground Pyxis c. 475 BC, Metropolitan Museum Judgement of Paris from a Roman mosaic in the Western Archaeological Zone of Kos town Judgement of Paris from a White Ground Pyxis c. 475 BC, Metropolitan Museum Judgement of Paris in the Mosaic of the Amores, Cástulo Spain 13 29/07/2018 Judgement of Paris from a Roman fresco at Pompeii Judgement of Paris from mosaic C4th AD from Casariche. Archaeological Museum of Seville, Spain Judgement of Paris on a bronze coin of Roman Emperor Maximinus I 235-238 AD Three statues of Paris, in the British Museum (Roman but remodelled in C18th), in the Metropolitan by Canova and in Copenhagen Glyptotek by Bissen Judgement of Paris from a manuscript of c. 1495 Judgement of Paris on maiolica dish c. 1565-1571 made in Urbino, Italy, Los Angeles County Museum 14 29/07/2018 Judgement of Paris on maiolica dish by Denis Lefebvre, France c. 1630-1640, British Museum Judgement of Paris on maiolica dish made in Gubbio, Italy in 1524, British Museum Judgement of Paris by Botticelli c. 1485-1488, Galleria Cini, Venice Judgement of Paris on maiolica late C19th after Raimondi, Metropolitan Museum Judgement of Paris by Cranach c.1528, Judgement of Paris by Watteau c. the Metropolitan Museum 1720, Louvre 15 29/07/2018 Judgement of Paris by Kauffman c. 1781, Puerto Rico Venus and Cupid introducing Paris to Helen by Kauffman 1790, the Hermitage Judgement of Paris by Mengs c. 1757, the Hermitage Judgement of Paris by Blake 1811, British Museum Judgement of Paris by Claude c. 1745-1746, National Gallery Washington DC Judgement of Paris by Flaxman 1804 16 29/07/2018 Judgement of Paris by Giordano c. 1681-1683, the Hermitage Judgement of Paris by Wtewael c.1590-1638, National Gallery Judgement of Paris by Rubens c. 1606 sketch Judgement of Paris by Rubens c. 1606, Prado Judgement of Paris by Rubens 1625, National Gallery Judgement of Paris by Rubens c. 1636, National Gallery 17 29/07/2018 Judgement of Paris by Rubens c. 1638-1639, Prado Judgement of Paris by Renoir 1908-1910, Hiroshima Judgement of Paris Panel-relief Judgement of Paris Probably Master I. P. Salzburg, Capodimonte, Capitoline Passau or Regensburg Bavaria Museum c. 1530, Victoria and Albert Museum Judgement of Paris Mandore Signed Boissart 1640 Paris Pearwood, Victoria and Albert Museum Paris and Helen (possibly) and ship on krater of c. 700 BC, British Museum 18 29/07/2018 Paris and Helen Red Figure vessel C4th BC Paris and Helen (possibly) on krater of c. 700 BC, British Museum The Rape of Helen by Primaticcio c. 1530–1539, Bowes Museum Helen of Troy by de Morgan Helen and Paris by Reni 1631, Louvre Helen and Paris by David 1788, Louvre 1898, London Thetis dipping Achilles in the River Styx by Banks 1789, Victoria and Albert Museum Thetis tries to burn away Achilles' mortal nature and gives him into the care of Chiron c. 1800 by Probst, Fine Arts Museums San Francisco 19 29/07/2018 Thetis dipping Achilles into the Styx by Rubens c. 1630-1635, Rotterdam Thetis handing Achilles over to Chiron by Creti c. 1725, Bologna 'The Education of Achilles by Chiron' fresco from Herculaneum C1st AD, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples Achilles riding Chiron c. 500-480 BC, British Museum Chiron and Achilles c. 500 BC, Palermo Achilles and Chiron from a Chiron, Peleus and infant Achilles from ‘The Golden Torch’ by Winifred Hutchinson 1914 sarcophagus c.