Pompeii_-_Casa_del_Menandro_-_Menelaos.jpg
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Summary
Description Pompeii - Casa del Menandro - Menelaos.jpg |
English:
Scene from the trojan war: Cassandra clings to the Xoanon, the wooden cult image of Athene, while Ajax the Lesser is about to drag her away in front of her father Priam (standing on the left).
Roman fresco from the atrium of the
Casa del Menandro
(I 10, 4) in Pompeii.
Deutsch:
Szene aus dem trojanischen Krieg: Kassandra wird vom Xoanon, dem hölzernen Kultbild der Athene, das sie schutzflehend umfasst hält, von Ajax dem Lokrer weggezerrt. Priamos steht mit hilfloser Geste dabei.
Römisches Fresko aus dem Atrium im
Haus des Menander
(I 10, 4) in Pompeji.
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Date | |
Source | Marisa Ranieri Panetta (ed.): Pompeji. Geschichte, Kunst und Leben in der versunkenen Stadt. Belser, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-7630-2266-X , p. 349 |
Author | WolfgangRieger |
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