Transcript Classical Mythology

Classical
Mythology
The Trojan War and Walcott’s
Omeros
Athens 804
Reconstructions of a Geometric sherd
(Biers, 112)
General Kreipe center, Stanley Moss to left and Patrick Leigh Fermor to right, surrounded
by the andartes in the mountains of Crete, April 1944.
Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890). Portrait
from his autobiography, 1892.
Cú Chulainn riding his chariot into
battle. Illustration from T W
Rolleston, Myths and Legends of the
Celtic Race (1911).
The House of Dardanus and
the House of Atreus.
The Epic Cycle: Cypria
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The
Judgment of Paris, 1530. Saint
Louis Art Museum.
The Epic Cycle: Cypria
Philoctetes on Lemnos. Attic redfigure squat lekythos, ca 420. New
York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Epic
Cycle: Iliad
Body of
Sarpedon
lifted by Sleep
and Death.
Calyx-krater
signed by
Euxitheos as
potter,
Euphronios as
painter, ca
515. New
York:
Metropolitan
Museum.
The Epic Cycle: Iliad
Giorgio de Chirico, Hector and
Andromache, 1917. Private
Collection.
The Epic Cycle: Iliad
The Funeral of Patroclus. Apulian red-figure
krater by the Darius Painter, ca. 330 B.C.
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale.
The Epic
Cycle: Iliad
The ransom of Hector. Attic black-figure neck amphora attributed to the Rycroft Painter,
510s. Toledo Museum of Art.
The Epic Cycle: Aethiopis
Achilles Slaying Penthesileia. Attic redfigure cup by the Penthesileia Painter,
460s. Munich, Alte Pinakothek.
Death of Achilles. Attic black-figure
amphora by Exekias, ca 530.
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology
The Epic Cycle: Little Iliad
Clip from
Troy, directed
by Wolfgang
Peterson,
2004.
The Epic Cycle: Ilioupersis
Sack of Troy. Neopotolemos kills
Priam, holding the body of
Astyanax. Aeneas flees with his
father Anchises on his back and his
son Askanios leading the way. Ajax
drags Casandra from the statue of
Athena.
Red-figure hydria by the
Kleophrades Painter, early V.
Naples, Museo Nazionale
Archeologico
The Epic Cycle: Nostoi
Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
killing Agamemnon. Attic red
figure kalyx krater by the
Dokimasia Painter, mid V.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
The Epic Cycle: Odyssey
Odysseus and his crew blinding Polyphemus. Proto-Attic amphora, ca 650. Eleusis,
Archaeological Museum.
The Epic Cycle: Odyssey
Odysseus and the Sirens. Attic red-figure stamnos by the
Siren Painter, 470s. London, British Museum.
The Epic Cycle: Odyssey
Odysseus slays the suitors of Penelope. Attic red-figure skyphos by the Penelope Painter,
ca 440. Berlin, Staatliche Museum.
The Epic Cycle: Telegony
Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus.
John William Waterhouse, 1891.
Manchester, Gallery Oldham.
Derek Walcott. Photograph by Graeme Robertson for the Guardian, 9 May 2014.
Documentary by Tony Knox for London Weekend Television, 1989.
37:20-39:10
Cutting trees
40:00-42:20
The sea and the fishermen
47:50-48:17
Hector vs Achille
Derek Walcott,
Street in Gros Îlet,
Preparing the Net
(1999), Seascape
with Figures, Self
Portrait (1998).
Lord Rodney’s Flagship “Formidable” Breaking through the French Line at the Battle of
the Saintes, 12th April 1782. William Elliott, 1784-1787. Private collection.
The Ghost Dance by the Oglala
Lakota at Pine Ridge. Illustration by
Frederic Remington, Harper's
Weekly, 6 December 1890, 960-61.
Catherine Weldon, 1878.
Birds-eye view of canyon at
Wounded Knee, 1891.
Winslow Homer, The Gulf
Stream, 1899. New York,
Metropolitan Museum.
Then I saw him. Achille! Bigger
than I remembered on the white sun-splintered deck
of the hot hull.
(Omeros, 183)
Port of Castries, St Lucia.
Derek Walcott, Almond Tree.