Reinach, i. 88.
PLATE LIV
From Furtwaengler and Reichhold.
The Sack of Troy; Kylix by Brygos in Louvre.
Among the various adventures described by the Cyclic poets in the Νοστοί, few seem to have found their way into the vase-paintings except the fate of Agamemnon, the interview of Menelaos with Proteus (told in the Odyssey), and, of course, the adventures of Odysseus.
The house of Atreus and its story will be dealt with later under the heading of the Oresteia: we turn now to the Odyssey, scenes from which are surprisingly few in Greek art, and appear to have attracted the painter less than the more stirring events of the Iliad. The following, however, have been identified:
Book II. 94 ff. Penelope at her loom.
Reinach, i. 191.