Gardner, Ernest Arthur: Poet and artist in Greece (London: Duckworth, 1933)

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Troy ; and it may be that the vase-painter, knowing this
claim, wished to indicate the doubt by representing two
Palladia in the hands of the two heroes.
The actual capture of Troy provided many subjects for
the vase-painter as well as for the painter of great frescoes.
The scenes on the vases are many of them dealt with
as separate incidents, though these are in many cases
combined into extensive compositions. Among the
incidents are the death of Priam by the hands of Neo-
ptolemos ; the death of Astyanax, son of Hector, who is
hurled from the battlements of Troy by Neoptolemos ;
the Trojan women taking refuge at the image of Athena ;


36. Uiupersis (Vivenzio vase)
Ajax Oileus dragging Cassandra from the same image ;
Menelaus pursuing Helen, who is saved by the intervention
of Aphrodite ; Acamas and Demophon recovering their
mother jEthra, who had accompanied Helen from Sparta
to Troy ; the escape of ALneas, carrying off his aged
father and his household gods. Most of these subjects
were included in the Little Iliad and the Iliupersis - but
there seems to have been no very exact correspondence
between either of these accounts and the versions followed
by the vase-painters. The two compositions most con-
venient for our purpose are those on a cup by Brygos and
on the so-called Vivenzio vase, now generally attributed
to Cleophrades. Neither of these adopts the continuous
method of narration, although they must deal with