Book IV. 349 ff. The story of Menelaos’ interview with Proteus.
Naples 1767 = _Mus. Borb._ xiii. 58 = Engelmann-Anderson, iv. 22.
Book V. 228 ff. Odysseus navigating the sea on a raft.
Oxford 262, _Cat._ pl. 26 (burlesque). See also B.M. E 156 (Odysseus and Leukothea).
Book VI. 126 ff. Nausikaa washing clothes.
Munich 420 = Reinach, ii. 110 = Roscher, _s.v._
Book IX. 345 ff. Odysseus offering wine to Polyphemos.
371 ff. Odysseus putting out the eye of Polyphemos.
Plate XVI. = Helbig, i. p. 435, No. 641 (Aristonoös); Bibl. Nat. 190 = Reinach, i. 64; B.M. B 154; Louvre F 342 = _Gaz. Arch._ 1887, pl. 1; Berlin 2123; _Arch. Anzeiger_, 1895, p. 35; _Jahrbuch_, 1891, pl. 6: see Bolte, _Monum. ad Odyss. pert._ p. 2.
B.M. B 407, 502, 687; Karlsruhe 167 = _J.H.S._ iv. p. 249; Louvre A 482; Reinach, i. 64: see also _Ath. Mitth._ 1897, pl. 8 (a very early instance); generally, _J.H.S._ iv. p. 248 ff., and _Rev. Arch._ xxxi. (1897), p. 28 ff.
Book X. 210 ff. Odysseus and Kirke (see _J.H.S._ xiii. p. 82).
Reinach i. 396; Berlin 2342 = _ibid._ i. 418; _Boston Mus. Report_, 1899, pp. 59, 61 (both early B.F.).
_J.H.S._ xiii. pls. 2 (Athens 956), 4 (in B.M.), p. 81 (Oxford 262); and see Reinach, i. 142.
Book XI. 23 ff. Odysseus sacrificing before his visit to Hades.
Bibl. Nat. 422 = Reinach, i. 126 = Baumeister, ii. p. 1040, fig. 1254.
Book XII. 164–200. Odysseus passing the Sirens.
Athens 958 = _J.H.S._ xiii. pl. 1; B.M. E 440; and see _J.H.S._ vi. pl. 49, p. 20 (= Louvre F 123); Corinthian aryballos in Boston (_Strena Helbigiana_, p. 31).
Scenes from the last twelve books are even rarer:
Book XIX. 385 ff. Odysseus recognised by Eurykleia.
In connection herewith see Munich 805 = Reinach, i. 277 for a possible representation of the betrothal of Laertes and Antikleia (_Hermes_, 1898, p. 641; Robert, _Homer_. _Becher_, p. 90 ff.; Hyginus, _Fab._ 201).
Book XXI. 393—XXII. 5 ff. The slaying of the suitors.
The scenes from the =Oresteia= cover roughly the same ground as the great trilogy of Aeschylos, together with the _Iphigeneia in Tauris_ and the _Andromache_ of Euripides. We have first the murder of Agamemnon by Klytaemnestra with her axe.[1423] Next, Elektra making her offerings at the tomb of Agamemnon, sometimes accompanied by her sister Chrysothemis.[1424] It must be borne in mind that the “type” of this scene does not differ in any respect from ordinary scenes of “offering at a _stele_,” and therefore, where the names are not given or are obviously modern additions, this interpretation is at best a doubtful one. The same applies to the next series of vases, on which Orestes meets Elektra at the tomb[1425]; but there seems to be one undoubted instance of Orestes and Pylades with the urn containing the supposed ashes of the former (cf. Soph. _Electra_, 1098 ff.).[1426] The next group to be dealt with shows us Orestes slaying Aegisthos,[1427] while Klytaemnestra is held back by Talthybios[1428]; and, finally, the death of Klytaemnestra herself.[1429]