Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword, by T. H. carpenter
Introduction
Paradigms and the Role of Poetry
Chronology
Purposes and Methodology
1. Greece
The François Vase
Corinthian Perspectives
Troilos and Achilleus
Exekias
Sirens
Ransom of Hektor
Fifth-century Portraits of Achilleus and Odysseus
Kabiric Vases
Conclusions
2. Megale Hellas
Trojan Topics
The Funeral of Patroklos
Thetis' Touch and an Embassy to Achilleus
The Dolon Painter
Thersites
Lykaon
Conclusions
3. Etruria
The Monteleone di Spoleto Chariot
The First Pania Pyxis
The Ambush of Troilos
Fifth-century Mirrors
Achilleus' Immolation of Trojan Youths
The Torre San Severo Sarcophagus
Aftermath and Conclusions
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003) was a professor of classics at the University of Oregon. Educated at the University of Chicago and Harvard, he contributed significant scholarship to the field of Homeric studies. He is the author of The Scepter and the Spear: Studies on Forms of Repetition in the Homeric Poems, The Death of Patroklos: A Study in Typology, and numerous journal articles.

Reviews

Highly recommended. Choice A thought-provoking book that also well illustrates the salient points of the author's argument. -- Peter A. Clayton Minerva These rich essays by Steven Lowenstam contribute to the centuries-long debates on the relationship between painting and poetry.The volume is quite successful in bringing together for comparison and contrast stories of the Trojan cycle as told by the Greeks and Etruscans.