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The subject of this painting was based on the events of the Trojan War as described in the Iliad. It is known that the painting was commissioned by Empress Catherine II, [15] [4] and the artist worked on it in 1773, [4] [9] although, according to art historian Avraham Kaganovich, "there is no doubt that it was started earlier." [7]
La Guerra di Troia (The Trojan War) , by Giorgio Ferroni. Doctor Faustus (1967), by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill, stars Elizabeth Taylor as Helen of Troy and Richard Burton as Doctor Faustus. Iphigenia is a 1977 rendering of the prologue to the Trojan War where Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter to appease the Goddess Artemis before sailing ...
Also according to the Iliad, the thief Autolycus broke into Amyntor's house in Eleon and stole a helmet, which Meriones gave to Odysseus during the Trojan War. [4] The mythographer Apollodorus gives a different version of Phoenix's story, probably drawn from a lost play by the tragedian Euripides. [5]
In Greek mythology, Hector (/ ˈ h ɛ k t ər /; Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, pronounced) is a Trojan prince, a hero and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. He is a major character in Homer's Iliad, where he leads the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, killing countless Greek warriors.
The Laocoön is an oil painting created between 1610 and 1614 by Greek painter El Greco.It is part of a collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. [1]The painting depicts the Greek and Roman mythological story of the deaths of Laocoön, a Trojan priest of Poseidon, and his two sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus.
Ajax the Lesser by Francesco Sabatelli, 1829 Scene from the Trojan War: Cassandra clings to the Palladium, the wooden cult image of Athene, while Ajax the Lesser is about to drag her away in front of her father Priam (standing on the left). Fresco from the atrium of the Casa del Menandro (I 10, 4) in Pompeii.
Ajax appears in the middle, bent over his sword which he is placing in the ground. There is a tree to one side of him and his suit of armor (with his helmet facing the scene and a gorgoneion on his shield, looking out at the viewer) to the other side. There is a line of geometric decoration at the top of the scene and at the bottom of the amphora.