Homer, bust in Capitoline Museum, Rome

Calchas, Briseis, Agamemnon & Achilles, by P. P. Rubens

Agamemnon, Achilles & Briseis, fresco fr. Pompeii

Departure of Briseis, Agamemnon, Achilles, RF ca 480 BC, in Boston

Arming of Hector with Priam & Hecuba, by Euthymides

Hermes, Andromache, Hector and Astyanax (on the horse)

Menelaos pursues Paris, Artemis on R., ca. 485 BC by Douris

Embassy to Achilles. Ajax & Odysseus on
Left, Achilles (head covered) and Phoenix on Right

Ajax and Achilles, by Lysippides

Ajax and Achilles, by Andokides

Spies in the night: Odysseus, Dolon, Diomedes

Diomedes fights Aeneas, with Athena (L) and Aphrodite (R)

Death of Sarpedon by Euphronius, in New York, Met. Museum

Closeup of no. 13: Sleep, Hermes, body of Sarpedon, Death

Detail of Hermes on no. 13

Hector at death of Patroclus, ca. 500 BC, in Agrigento

Thetis consoles Achilles after Patroclus' death

Thetis and Hephaestus, ca. 480 BC

Thetis presents the armor to Achilles

Achilles wounding Hector, by Berlin painter

Achilles drags Hector's body around walls of Troy

Funeral games for Patroclus: Diomedes in chariot, fr. Francois vase

Patroclus' "psyche" watches the chariot race

Ransom of Hector by Priam: note Hermes, Achilles, Thetis; by Oltos

Priam comes to ransom Hector's body, ca. 480 BC by Brygos painter

Priam, Achilles, body of Hector, by Brygos painter

Achilles fights Penthesileia, BF by Exekias, ca. 530 BC

Detail of Exekias' vase, no. 27

Achilles and Penthesileia, by Penthesileia painter, ca. 460 BC

Achilles carrying the corpse of Penthesileia

Achilles fighting Memnon

Detail of no. 31: Achilles in battle

Battle over Achilles' body: Ajax, Paris, Aeneas; ca. 535 BC

Battle over Achilles' body: Paris, Menelaos, Ajax, Neoptolemus, Aeneas

Ajax carries Achilles' body & armor off field, by Exekias, ca. 525 BC

Ajax and Odysseus dispute Achilles' armor, by Douris, ca. 490 BC

Achaeans vote over arms of Achilles, by Douris, ca. 490 BC

Suicide of Ajax, metope fr Foce del Sele near Paestum, ca. 570 BC

Suicide of Ajax, by Exekias, ca. 525 BC, in Boulogne

Heinrich Schliemann

Sophia Schliemann wearing gold jewelry from Troy

TROY: the hill of Hissarlik from north

TROY: river Scamander on south side of hill

TROY: center of Bronze Age citadel, plain of Troad beyond

TROY: plan of wall sequences, after Dorpfeld

TROY: center of Schliemann's Great Trench, walls of Level I

TROY: level II, early defensive walls & "Scaean" gate with ramp

TROY: level II, evidence for mudbrick walls in megaron

TROY: level VI, SW defensive walls

TROY: level VI, tower in South circuit of walls

TROY: level VI, NE wall circuit and tower