In Art. Ancient: Œdipus and the Sphinx (in Monuments Inédits, Rome and Paris, 1839-1878). Modern paintings: Teschendorff's Œdipus and Antigone, Antigone and Ismene, and Antigone; Œdipus and the Sphinx, by J. D. A. Ingres; The Sphinx, by D. G. Rossetti.
Of the stories told in these and the following sections no systematic, allegorical, or physical interpretations are here given, because (1) the general method followed by the unravelers of myth has already been sufficiently illustrated; (2) the attempt to force symbolic conceptions into the longer folk-stories, or into the artistic myths and epics of any country, is historically unwarranted and, in practice, is only too often capricious; (3) the effort to interpret such stories as the Iliad and the Odyssey must result in destroying those elements of unconscious simplicity and romantic vigor that characterize the early products of the creative imagination.
190-194. Houses concerned in the Trojan War.
Table O
(1) Family of Peleus and its connections:
Asopus +— Ægina
=Jupiter
+— Æacus
+— Telamon
| =Eribœa
| +— Ajax
| =Hesione
| +— Teucer
+— Peleus
=Thetis
+— Achilles
+— Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus)
=Hermione d. of Menelaüs and Helen
Nereus
=Doris
+— Thetis
=Peleus
+— Achilles (see above)
(2) Family of Atreus and its connections:
Jupiter +— Minos I
| +— Lycastus
| +— Minos II
| +— Crateus
| +— Aërope
| =Atreus
| +— Agamemnon
| | =Clytemnestra
| | +— Iphigenia
| | +— Electra
| | +— Chrysothemis
| | +— Orestes
| | =Hermione
| +— Menelaüs
| =Helen
| +— Hermione
| =Neoptolemus
| =Orestes
+— Tantalus
+— Pelops
=Hippodamia
+— Atreus
| =Aërope
| +— Agamemnon (see above)
| +— Menelaüs (see above)
+— Thyestes
| +— Ægisthus
+— Pittheus
+— Æthra
=Ægeus
+— Theseus
+— Hippolytus
(3) Family of Tyndareus and its connections: