Agesander, Polydorus and Athenodorus

Laocoon

Angelico, Fra

The Abduction of Helen

Arcimboldo, Guiseppe

The Trojan Horse

Banks, Thomas

Thetis dips Achilles in the River Styx
Thetis and her Nymphs comfort Achilles

Barker, Wright

Circe

Barry, James

The Judgement of Paris

Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo

Achilles and the Centaur Chiron
Achilles at the Court of Lycomedes

Bauer, Wilhelm

Peleus and Thetis
The Death of Achilles
The suicide of Ajax
Polymnestor Kills Polydorus

Beckmann, Max

Odysseus and Calypso

Benevenuto, Girolamo

The Judgement of Paris

Black figure paintings

The wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Gods attend the wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Eris
The Judgement of Paris
The Judgement of Paris
The Judgement of Paris
The Judgement of Paris
Peleus presents Achilles to Chiron
Chiron
Achilles recruited for the Trojan War
Mycenean warriors
Achilles and Ajax playing dice
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game
Achilles and Ajax playing (bilingual amphora)
Achilles and Ajax playing dice
Polyxena at the fountain
Troilos and Polyxena at the fountain
Achilles waits in ambush
Achilles prepares to ambush Troilus
Achilles ambushing Troilos
Achilles pursues Troilos
Troilos and Polyxena fleeing
Hector bids farewell to Andromache
The battle over the body of Patroclus
The battle over the body of Patroclus
Thetis rearms Achilles
Achilles kills Hector
The body of Hector dragged by Achilles
The body of Hector
The funeral games of Patroclos
An Amazon killing Greeks
A mounted Amazon chases a Greek from the field
Achilles killing Penthesileia
Achilles carrying the body of Penthesileia
Achilles fighting Memnon over the body of Antilochus
Eos mourning her dead son Memnon
The Death of Achilles
The fight over the body of Achilles
Ajax carrying the body of Achilles
Odysseus and Ajax brawling
Ajax prepares to commit suicide
The discovery of the body of Ajax
The funeral of Ajax
The sacrifice of Polyxena
Neoptolemos batters Priam with the body of Astyanax
The blinding of Polyphemos
The blinding of Polyphemos
The blinding of Polyphemos
The blinding of Polyphemos
The blinding of Polyphemos
The blinding of Polyphemos
Escape from the Cyclops' cave
Escape from the Cyclops' cave
Escape from the Cyclops' cave
Odysseus and Circe
Odysseus and Circe
Odysseus and the Sirens
Odysseus escapes the shipwreck on a makeshift raft

Blake, William

The Judgement of Paris

Bonasone, Giulio

The Judgement of Paris

Both, Jan

Landscape with the Judgement of Paris

Boucher, Juste Francois

The Judgement of Paris

Bouguereau, William Adolphe

Orestes pursued by the Furies

Boulanger, Gustave

Odysseus recognised by Eurykleia

Boutibonne, Charles Edward

Sirens

Breughel, Jan (the Elder)

The Burning of Troy
A Fantastic Cave Landscape with Odysseus & Calypso

Burne-Jones, Edward

The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis

Canova, Antonio

Paris
Helen
The death of Priam

Carracci, Annibale, Ludovico, Agostino (after)

The Trojans taking Sinon prisoner (engraving)
The Wooden Horse entering Troy (engraving)
The Greeks dragging Cassandra out of the Temple (engraving)
Hermes, Circe and Odysseus (engraving)

Cassini, Oleg

Helen of Troy

Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

The Education in Geography of the young Achilles
The Education in Music of the young Achilles
Circe with her animals

Cazin, Jean-Charles

Odysseus on the seashore

Chagall, Marc

The death of the suitors

Chalon, Louis

Circe

Claude Gellée, Le Lorrain

A Landscape with the Judgement of Paris
The Homecoming of Odysseus

Collier, John

Clytemnestra after the murder

Cranach, Lucas (the elder)

The Judgement of Paris (1528)
The Judgement of Paris (1530)

Creti, Donato

Thetis dipping Achilles in the waters of the Styx

da Cortona, Pietro

Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Dali, Salvador

The Judgement of Paris

Daumier, Honoré

L'enlèvement d'Hélène
Histoire Ancienne: Le baptême d'Achille
after Guerin's Murder of Agamemnon
Le retour d'Ulysse
Penelope and Odysseus reunited

David, Jacques Louis

Helen and Paris
The Anger of Achilles at Aulis
The Obsequies of Patroclus
The body of Hector
Andromache mourns for Hector

De Chirico, George

Orestes and Pylades

de Lairesse, Gerard

Achilles discovered among the daughters of Lycomedes

DeMorgan, Evelyn

Helen of Troy

Denning, Lucinda

The Judgement of Paris

Dente, Marco

The Abduction of Helen

de Troy, Jean-Francois

The Judgement of Paris

Domenico Veneziano (attr)

The Judgement of Paris

Dosso Dossi

Circe and her lovers
Circe

Doucet, Lucien

Reunion of Odysseus and Telemachos

Draper, Herbert James

Odysseus and the Sirens

Drolling, Michel

The Wrath of Achilles

Durantino, Guido (workshop of)

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

El Greco

Laocoon

Elsheimer, Adam

The Burning of Troy

Etty, William

Sirens

Fantin-Latour, Henri

The Judgement of Paris

Fantuzzi, Antonio

Achilles bids farewell to Deidamia

Fedi, Pio

Neoptolemus siezes Polyxena

Flaxman, John

The Wrath of Achilles
Briseis taken from Achilles
Diomedes fights Ares
Hector taunts Paris
Thetis rearms Achilles
The Shield of Achilles
Iris speaks to Priam
The Council of Zeus
Athene descends to Ithaca
Phemios entertains the suitors
Penelope discovered by the suitors
Telemachos and Athene
Nestor's sacrifice
Penelope's dream
Hermes' message to Calypso
Leucothea preserving Odysseus
Nausicaa throws the ball
Odysseus follows Nausicaa's wagon
Odysseus presents himself to Alcinoös and Arete
Odysseus weeps at the singing of Demodocos
Odysseus mixes wine for Polyphemus
Antiphates seizes a crewman
Odysseus at the table of Circe
Odysseus is terrified by the ghosts
The Sirens
Scylla
Lampetia complains to Apollo
Odysseus asleep laid on his own coast
Odysseus conversing with Eumaios
Athene restores Odysseus to his own shape
Odysseus and Argos
Iros is terrified by Odysseus' physique
Eurykleia recognises Odysseus
Penelope carrying the bow to the suitors
Odysseus killing the suitors
The meeting of Odysseus and Penelope
Hermes conducts the souls of the suitors to Hades

Floris, Franz

The Judgement of Paris

Francken, Franz II

The Abduction of Helen

Frink, Dame Elisabeth

Portents in the Assembly
The Old Man of the Sea
Odysseus and Calypso reconciled
The ball of Nausicaa falls into the river
Escape from the Cyclops
Circe
Slaughtering the cattle of the Sun
Odysseus clings to the keel
Eumaios drives off the dogs
Theoklymenus interprets the portent
The great bow
Telemachos executes the maidservants

Fuseli, Henry

The Shade of Patroclus
Achilles sacrifices his hair on the pyre

Giampetrino (Giovan Pietro Rizzoli)

Leda and her children

Giulio Romano

The Judgement of Paris

Grosz, George

Circe dancing with her lover

Guerin, Pierre Narcisse

The Murder of Agamemnon

Hacker, Arthur

Circe enchants Odysseus' companions

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique

Thetis appeals to Zeus
The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles

Joanes, Joan de

The Judgement of Paris

Jordaens, Jacob

Odysseus and his companions escape from the Cyclops

Kauffmann, Angelica

Penelope weeping over the bow of Odysseus

Klimt, Gustav

Pallas Athene

Klinger, Max

Cassandra
Penelope brooding over her finished weaving

Kokoshka, Oscar

Achilles dragging Hector's corpse

Kramarenko, Valery

The Death of Achilles

Lastman, Pieter Pieterz

Orestes and Pylades
Odysseus and Nausicaa

Leefdael, J van

Engraving after Rubens - Death of Hector

Lefevre, Raoul

The Trojan Horse

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Nausicaa

Leonardo da Vinci

Leda and the Swan

Lidel, Jac. Balthasar

Achilles and Deidamia; the surprises of love

Manuel, Niklaus

The Judgement of Paris

McDaniel, Mark

Helen sailing away from Troy

Master of the Judgement of Paris

The Judgement of Paris
The Abduction of Helen

Maurer, Herbert

Hermes visits Calypso and Odysseus
Circe pleads with Odysseus

Mignard, Nicolas

Odysseus bound to the mast

Mignard, Pierre

The Marquise de Seignelay and two of her children

Monsiau, Nicolas-André

Odysseus ordering the women to remove the bodies of the suitors

Moreau, Jean-Michel (le jeune)

Achilles disguised as a girl discovered by Odysseus
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Nicolas (after Guillon-Lethière)

Philoctetes in Elba

Ogilby, John (translator)

Odysseus and the Sirens

Parmigianino (after)

Circe (woodcut)
Circe (woodcut)

Pellegrini, Giovanni

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Picart, Bernard

Memnon, son of Eos and Tithonus
Cassandra warns the Trojans
Odysseus avoids the Sirens

Picasso, Pablo

The Sirens

Piramus, Reginaldus

Odysseus and Polyphemos

Primaticcio, Francesco

The Abduction of Helen
Achilles Among the Daughters of Lycomedes
Penelope and Odysseus

Probst, Johann Balthasar

Thetis tries to burn away Achilles' mortal nature
Thetis anoints Achilles with ambrosia
Thetis immerses Achilles in the Styx
Thetis, tired of her husband, returns to her nymphs
Thetis gives Achilles into the care of Chiron
Achilles discovered among the daughters of Lycomedes
Thetis rearms Achilles
Achilles fights by the river
Achilles dragging Hector's corpse
Death of Achilles

Puget, Pierre

Homer
The Abduction of Helen

Raimondi, Marcantonio

Paris on Mount Ida
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Red figure paintings

Peleus and Thetis
Peleus and Thetis
Peleus and Thetis
Peleus and Thetis
Peleus and Thetis
Peleus and Thetis
Peleus and Thetis
Paris on Mount Ida
The Judgement of Paris
The Judgement of Paris
The Judgement of Paris
The Wedding of Menelaus and Helen
The Meeting of Paris and Helen
The Meeting of Paris and Helen
Helen Undecided
Helen Undecided
Helen Undecided
The Abduction of Helen
The Abduction of Helen
Peleus presents Achilles to Chiron
Chiron and Achilles
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Achilles tending the wounded Patroclos
Achilles and Ajax playing
Achilles and Ajax playing (bilingual amphora)
Briseis taken from Achilles
The duel between Menelaos and Paris
Diomedes wounds Aeneas
Ajax fights Hector
Hector and Ajax exchange gifts
The Embassy to Achilles
The Embassy to Achilles
The Embassy to Achilles
The death of Sarpedon
Thetis rearms Achilles
Achilles killing Penthesileia
Greeks fighting Amazons
Achilles killing Penthesileia
Achilles supports the wounded Penthesilea
Achilles strikes down Memnon
Memnon falls into the arms of Eos
Achilles attacking Memnon
Hermes weighing the destinies of Achilles and Memnon
Eos cradles the body of Memnon
Apollo directs the hand of Paris
Ajax and Odysseus quarrelling
The vote on the armour
The capture of Polyxena
Philoctetes on Lemnos
Odysseus presents the armour of Achilles to Neoptolemos
Diomedes with the Palladion
Priam attacked by Neoptolemos
The death of Priam
Menelaos pursues Helen
Menelaos catches Helen
Menelaos attacking Helen
Menelaos drops his sword
Menelaos and Helen reunited
The rescue of Aethra
Menelaos and Helen reunited
Cassandra flees the carnage
Ajax drags Cassandra away by her hair
Ajax violating Cassandra
Ajax siezes Cassandra
The rape of Cassandra
Ajax attacking Cassandra
Satire on the rape of Cassandra
Andromache protects Astyanax
Neoptolemos attacks Priam with the body of his grandson
Clytemnestra traps Agamemnon in a net
Clytemnestra and the body of Agamemnon
Klytemnestra kills Cassandra
Orestes at Delphi
Orestes, Klytemnestra, Aegisthus
Orestes kills Aegisthus
Calypso offers Odysseus a chest
Boiotian parody of the Odyssey
Nausicaa laundering her wedding clothes
Odysseus and Nausicaa
The blinding of Polyphemos
Odysseus' men transformed into pigs
Odysseus threatens Circe
Odysseus and Elpenor
Odysseus and Tiresias
Odysseus and the Sirens
Odysseus recognized by his nurse
Odysseus slaying the suitors

Regnault, Jean-Baptiste

The Education of Achilles by the Centaur Chiron

Reni, Guido

The Abduction of Helen

Roberts, William

The Return of Odysseus

Roman frescoes and mosaics

The Judgement of Paris
Achilles and Chiron
Odysseus discovers Achilles disguised as 'Pyrrha'
Fresco - Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes
Romano-British mosaic - Achilles surprises Deidamia
Romano-British mosaic - Achilles, Lycomedes and Deidamia
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Iphigenia in Tauris
Orestes and Pylades in Tauris
The Wrath of Achilles
Briseis taken from Achilles
Aeneas wounded
Thetis in the workshop of Hephaistos
Ajax drags Cassandra away
Cassandra
Odysseus and Polyphemus
Meeting the daughter of Antiphates
The Laistrygonians gather trees and rocks
The Laistrygonians bombard Odysseus' ships
The House of Circe
Odysseus and his companions enter Hades
Odysseus and the Sirens
Scylla

Rosa, Salvator

Odysseus and Nausicaa

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Helen of Troy

Rosso, Giovanni Battista

The Education of Achilles

Rothko, Mark

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Rubens, Peter Paul

The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
The Judgement of Paris (1600)
The Judgement of Paris (1632)
The Judgement of Paris (1639)
Thetis dips Achilles in the River Styx
The Centaur Chiron teaching Achilles
Achilles discovered among the daughters of Lycomedes
The Wrath of Achilles
The Return of Briseis
Hector killed by Achilles
Battle of the Amazons
The Death of Achilles
Odysseus on the island of the Phaiacians

Sargent, John singer

Chiron and Achilles
Orestes pursued by the Furies

Sarni, Elena

The Judgement of Paris

Schick, Gottlieb

Achilles and Chiron

Serrur, Henri

Ajax

Solis, Vergilius

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Myrmidons
Ajax and Odysseus dispute over the armour of Achilles

Strutt, Joseph

Orestes and Pylades before Iphigenia

Tempesta, Antonio

Peleus embraces Thetis
Hephaistos making the armour of Achilles
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
The Battle Between the Greeks and the Amazons
Eos asking Zeus to honour Memnon's death
The Dispute Over Achilles' Armour
The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Circe changes Odysseus' crew into pigs

Testa, Pietro (after)

Achilles on the back of the Centaur Chiron

Thorneycroft, Sir Hamo

Teucer

Thorwaldsen, Bertel

Aphrodite with the apple

Thulden, Theodor van

Odysseus builds a raft
Ciconians
Lotus-Eaters
Odysseus lands on the island of the Cyclopes
Odysseus encounters Polyphemus
Odysseus blinds the Cyclops
Odysseus escapes from the Cyclops' cave
Odysseus taunts Polyphemos
Aiolos gives Odysseus the bag of winds
The West Wind speeds them home
Odysseus unsleeping
The winds are released from the sack
Antiphates devours a crewman
Odysseus lands on Aiaia
Circe frees Odysseus' crew
Odysseus takes on board a ram to sacrifice in Hades
Odysseus lands at the limit of the Ocean
Odysseus makes sacrifice
The ghosts drink the blood
The murder of Agamemnon and his companions
Odysseus seeks out famous dead souls
The funeral of Elpenor
Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis
Stealing the cattle of Helios
Odysseus bids farewell to Alcinoös
Odysseus is put ashore in Ithaca
Athene appears before Odysseus
Athene parts the mists to reveal Ithaca
Odysseus and Eumaios
Argos recognises Odysseus
Odysseus begs at his own door
The suitors throw Odysseus scraps
Odysseus destroys Iros
Athene prompts Odysseus to use the bow
Odysseus hits the mark
Odysseus reveals himself to the suitors
Odysseus and his allies pursue the suitors
Odysseus summons the maids
The work is ended
Eurykleia informs Penelope of Odysseus' return
Odysseus steps from his bath
Penelope embraces Odysseus
Penelope and Odysseus retire to bed
Odysseus tells his story to Penelope
Penelope is still unsure of Odysseus
Athene reassures Penelope
Athene conceals Odysseus' departure in a fog
Odysseus sends Eumaus ahead
Odysseus makes himself known to Laertes
Odysseus' retainers come to greet him
Burying the bodies of the suitors
The decision is taken to attack Odysseus
Athene and Zeus stop the fighting
Odysseus is recognised as king of Ithaka

Tibaldi, Pellegrino

Ino saves Odysseus
Stealing the cattle of the Sun

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista

Aphrodite gives birth to Aeneas
Briseis brought to Agamemnon
Briseis brought to Agamemnon
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico

The building of the Trojan Horse
The procession of the Trojan Horse

Turner, Joseph Mallord William

The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention
Odysseus deriding Polyphemos

Udine, Giovanni da (see under Joanes, Joan de)

Unattributed

The Judgement of Paris (after Rubens)
Ivory comb with the Judgement of Paris
Coin with the Judgement of Paris
Illustration from De Alchimia - The Judgement of Paris
The Judgement of Queen Elizabeth I
Athenian wine bowl - Helen and Paris embark
Athenian wine bowl - Helen and Paris embark (detail)
Medieval capital - Education of Achilles
Sarcophagus - Achilles at court of Lycomedes
Mirror frame - Calchas
Etruscan terracotta - The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Etruscan burial urn - The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Diomedes and Athena
Polychromatic East Greek plate - Menelaos and Hector fight over the body of Euphorbos
Sarcophagus - Achilles dragging Hector's corpse
Relief tablet - The Murder of Agamemnon
Bronze relief - The Murder of Cassandra
Roman silver cup - Electra, Orestes and Pylades
Roman statue - Electra and Orestes
Sarcophagus - the story of Orestes
Sarcophagus - Achilles holding the body of Penthesileia
Engraving - Paris kills Achilles
Achilleas thniskon (The dying Achilles)
Frieze - The battle over the body of Achilles
Statuette - The suicide of Ajax
Illuminated manuscript - Sinon brought to Priam
Illuminated manuscript - The Trojan Horse
Relief amphora - The Trojan Horse
The Horse entering the city of Troy
Relief pythos - Menelaos and Helen
Gold ring - Cassandra clasping the image of Athene
Engraving - The death of Astyanax
Illuminated manuscript - Greeks massacring Trojans
Bust of Penelope
Bronze figurine - Odysseus escapes from Polyphemos
Sarcophagus - Odysseus and the Sirens
Christian sarcophagus - Odysseus and the Sirens
Relief - Odysseus, Eurykleia and Penelope
Relief - Odysseus disguised as a beggar
Relief - Odysseus recognised by Eurykleia

van Balen, Hendrick

The Judgement of Paris

van der Werff, Adriaen

The Judgement of Paris

Van Dyck (style of)

The Horses of Achilles

Van Haarlem, Cornelis

The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis

Veyrier, Christophe

The dying Achilles

von Stuck, Franz

Helen Undecided

Warner Brothers

Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy
The sack of Troy

Waterhouse, John William

Circe Invidiosa
Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus
Odysseus and the Sirens

Watteau, Antoine

The Judgement of Paris

Watts, George Frederick

The Judgement of Paris

West, Benjamin

Iphigenia recognises Orestes and Pylades

Westall, Richard

The Reconciliation of Helen and Paris

Wtewael, Joachim

The Judgement of Paris

Zompini, Gaetano

Chiron and Achilles practicising magic
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