Map showing location of Mycenae

Mycenae, distant view of the Bronze Age citadel

Mycenae, Bronze Age wall, gate, citadel

Mycenae, megaron palace atop the citadel

Mycenae, the Lion Gate in situ

Mycenae, closeup of Lion Gate

Mycenae, Grave Circle A

Mycenae, Grave Circle A from above

Mycenae, royal tholos tomb called "Treasury of Atreus"

Gold death masks from Mycenae, grave circle A

So-called gold death mask of Agamemnon

RF, ca. 470 BC: Agamemnon slain by Aegistheus, Clytemnestra on right

Detail of no, 12: Agamemnon in the shroud

Clytemnestra stabs Cassandra, bronze plaque from Athens, ca. 570 BC

Clytemnestra murders Cassandra with an axe

Clytemnestra with her axe

Orestes and Electra, Roman pastiche, ca. AD 150 or later

Orestes kills Aegistheus, metope from Foce del Sele, ca. 570 BC

A servant, Clytemnestra, Electra, Orestes, Aegistheus: Berlin painter, ca. 500 BC

Clytemnestra & servant dash toward Aegistheus (detail of no. 19)

Electra, Orestes and the murder of Aegistheus (detail of no. 19)

Orestes kills Aegistheus by the Dokimasia painter, ca. 470 BC

Bronze relief ca. 570 BC from Olympia: Orestes murders Clytemnestra

Orestes killing Clytemnestra: Attic RF

Orestes at Delphi, Apulian krater ca. 370 BC

Neoptolemus and Orestes at the omphalos, Delphi

The Furies turn into Eumenides

Odysseus, Athena and Nausikaa on Phaeacia

Blinding of Polyphemus, Proto-Attic amphora from Eleusis

Detail of no. 29: Odysseus & Polyphemus

Polyphemus blinded, Laconian kylix ca. 550 BC

Odysseus vs. Polyphemus

Escape from Poyphemus

Odysseus underneath the ram

Odysseus arrives at Circe's palace, by Van
Ehrenberg

Circe changing man into animal

Odysseus & Hermes changing the men back into humans

Odysseus with the shade of Elpenor, Hermes Psychopompus, Attic RF ca. 440 BC

The Sirens, Attic BF ca. 490 BC

Odysseus and the sirens, Attic RF

Odysseus and the sirens, Italic RF

Odysseus recognized by Eurykeia at Ithaca

Odysseus attacks the suitors in the palace

Detail of no. 43: Odysseus with the bow

Detail of no. 43: the suitors under attack

Pinturicchio: Il Ritorno di Ulisse in patria