THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Menelaus
1. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Front relief of an etruscan cinerary urn “Menelaus and Meriones lifting Patroclus’ corpse on a cart”.
Alabaster.
Volterra, 2nd cent. BCE.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
2. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Fall of Troy: Menelaus captures Helen; Ajax drags Cassandra away from the statue of Athene in the presence of Priam.
Fourth style. 50—79 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, House of Menander (I, 10, 4, wing).
3. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Ajax the Lesser dragging Cassandra from the Palladium in view of Priam.
Fresco in the room 4 of the house of Quintus Poppaeus Sabinus (“House of Menander”).
Fourth style. 60—79 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, House of Menander (I, 10, 4, wing).
4. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Trojan slab (Tabula Iliaca).
Calcite.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 316.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Doves.
5. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Trojan slab (Tabula Iliaca).
Calcite.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 316.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Doves.
6. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
The duel between Eteocles and Polynices. (Variant: Death of Patroclus.)
Relief of the front of Etruscan cinerary urn.
Alabaster. 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 28136.
Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei.