Edited by Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Associate Professor of Classics, Temple University

Note: not all images here are universally available outside Temple and other institutions with Perseus site licenses.

Last updated 22 November 2002

Events before the War

• Leda and the Swan/Zeus
• Abduction of Helen by Theseus
• Peleus wrestling with Thetis
• Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
• Peleus bringing Achilles to Chiron
• Achilles and Chiron
• Judgement of Paris
• Judgement of Paris
• Helen and Aphrodite
• Alexandros/Paris abducting Helen
• The sacrifice of Iphigenia
• The Lion Gate at Mycenae, "the palace of Agamemnon"
• Photos of the Oresteia

The Trojan War

• Homeric battle scenes featuring Hector, Paris, Menelaus and their gods
• Ajax and Achilles gaming, with Athena
• Briseis
• Agamemnon taking Briseis
• The mission to Achilles
• Achilles tending the wounded Patroclus
• Hector and Andromache, Helen and Paris
• Sleep and Death transporting the body of Sarpedon to Lycia
• Departure of Hector
• Achilles receiving armor from Thetis
• Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector
• The ransom of Hector's body. Compare a second view of this scene
• Vase with scenes ofAchilles and Memnon, and Diomedes fighting Aeneas
• Vase showing Achilles fighting Pentheselia, and Memnon with attendants
• Achilles killing Pentheselia
• Eos with the body of Memnon. If this image reminds you of something, try comparing it to this one
• The death of Achilles
• Ajax carrying the dead Achilles
• An Etrurian gem carving of the same topic
• And the same scene on another vase

The Fall of Troy and After

• Scenes from the fall of Troy
• Ajax raping Cassandra
• Menelaos taking Helen (same vase as Peleus and Chiron)
• Aeneas carrying Anchises, and another view
• Odysseus presenting Achilles' armor to Neoptolemus
• The death of Ajax
• Laocoon and his sons attacked by snakes
• Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena

The Homecomings

• Odysseus and Nausicaa
• Elpenor addressing Odysseus, who stands next to Hermes
• Odyseeus consulting Tiresias in Hades
• Odysseus blinding Polyphemus
• Odysseus escaping the Cyclops' cave
• Odysseus and the Cyclops, another view
• Odysseus and Circe
• Odysseus and the Sirens
• Penelope and Telemachus
• The Nurse washing Odysseus' feet
• The return of Odysseus
• Odysseus slaying the suitors

Sites

• Mycenae, Home of Agamemnon
• Pylos, Home of Nestor

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