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Peter Paul Rubens-The Judgement of Paris
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Babylon
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Babylon, Ancient Iraq
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Babylon
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Babylon
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Babylon
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Babylon
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Two-handled amphora depicting Hephaistos polishing the shield of Achilles, Greek, Early Classical Period, about 480 B.C.
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Achilles wrapped up in dismay listening to Odysseus.
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This Attic red-figure crater has Hermes standing over the body as it is lifted by Sleep and Death directly, and Apollo does not appear.
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Athena supports Ajax, while Apollo supports Hector.
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This red-figure crater from Sicily (c500 BCE) shows, covered in a starry mantle, lifted off the field.
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The body of Hector, with its many wounds, lies unrotting (thanks to Aphrodite's ambrosia treatment) under his couch.
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On the right you see Apollo turning to abandon his hero.
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Thetis brings the new armour to Achilles, who mourns his friend Patroclus
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Thetis gives her son Achilles his weapons newly forged by Hephaestus, detail of an Attic black-figure hydria
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Achilles and Ajax at Draughts, Black Figure Ware Amphora, Greek, 540 BCE
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Full Menelaus intends to strike Helen; struck by her beauty, he drops his swords. A flying Eros and Aphrodite (on the left) watch the scene. Detail of an Attic red-figure crater, ca. 450–440 BC, found in Gnathia (now Italy).
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Chryses pleading with Agamemnon for his daughter, ca. 360 BC–350 BC (Louvre).
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Slaughter of the suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus, Campanian red-figure bell-krater, ca. 330 BC, Louvre (CA 7124) -
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Philoctetes abandoned at Lemnos,detail of an Attic red-figure stamnos, ca. 460 BC, Campana Collection, 1861.
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Heroes of the Trojan War
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Thetis dipping Achilles in the waters of the river Styx
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The apple of discord
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Thetis asks Hephaistos to produce armour for her son Achilles (Johann Heinrich Füssli 1803 ). Hephaistos shown with his his golden "robots"
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The wedding of Peleus and Thetis: while the gods feast at the table Eris throws her apple from a cloud
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The statue of Athena to which Cassandra clung just before Ajax dragged her away should not be the Palladium, since Odysseus and Diomedes stole it before the fall of Troy
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The sacrifice of Iphigenia.
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The farewells of Hector and Andromache
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The fall of Troy, by Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–1769). From the collections of the granddukes of Baden, Karlsruhe.
