Judgment of Paris:

#1        Hermes (center) brings news of his mission to Paris. Behind him, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite
#2        The Judgment of Paris: Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, and Paris
#3         Paris dressed in Oriental garb
#4          Menelaos pursues Paris
#5         Paris abducts Helen      #6  ... or leads her, holding her wrist as in the marriage ceremony
#7         The sacrifice of Iphigenia
#8          Achilles and Hector fighting over the body of the Trojan Troilos
# 9          (same vase) Hermes, Athena, and Achilles
#10        Eos (Dawn) recovers the body of her son, Memnon
#11        Neoptolemos, son of Achilles, dragging Priam from the altar
#12         #13       Neoptolemos threatens Priam carrying the body of dead Astyanax, son of Ajax
#14          #15      Priam and Hecuba plead with Achilles, who is dragging the body of Hector, tied to his chariot.  Andromache also supplicates
#16        Ajax about to rape Cassandra (?)
#17        Priam supplicates to Achilles in his tent.  The body of Hector under the couch.

THEMES AND ISSUES FOR CLASS DISCUSSION

THE ILIAD:

History and myth
Composition in performance
Oral poetry
Formulas

THEMES OF WAR:

Heroic death
Immortality of glory
Violence
Honor insulted, revenge
Antagonism

THEMES OF PEACE:
The shield of Achilles
Exchange or reciprocity
Hospitality and its codes
Sacrifice and sacrificial meal
Prophets, prophecies

ISSUES:
Men and gods
Men and beasts
Nature and culture
Greeks and Others