{"id":605,"date":"2009-01-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/2009\/01\/01\/371\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T09:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:12:33","slug":"371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/online-museum-review\/371\/","title":{"rendered":"Homer: Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Homer: Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, 16 March\u201317 August 2008<\/em>, conception and organization by Peter Blome, Suzanne Greub, and Alfried Wieczorek; scholarly direction by Joachim Latacz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Homer: Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig<\/em>, edited by Joachim Latacz, Thierry Greub, Peter Blome, and Alfried Wieczorek. Pp. 508, b&amp;w figs. 101, color figs. 406, maps 14. Hirmer, Munich 2008. SFR 76; \u20ac45. ISBN 978-3-7774-3965-5 (cloth).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2001, an exhibition about Troy presented in three German museums provoked a controversy of epic proportions. <em>Troia\u2013Traum und Wirklichkeit <\/em>was organized by the distinguished Homerist Joachim Latacz, together with the most recent excavator of Bronze Age Troy, the late Manfred Korfmann, and others.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_605\" id=\"identifier_1_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz 2001a.\">1<\/a><\/sup> It focused on the results of Korfmann\u2019s excavations since the early 1980s, the history of Troy in its Anatolian context, and the implications of the new excavations for our understanding of Homer and the Trojan War. Korfmann\u2019s views on the extent and importance of Late Bronze Age Troy\u2014later championed by Latacz in a semipopular book that is also available in an English translation<sup><a href=\"#footnote_2_605\" id=\"identifier_2_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz 2001b, 2004.\">2<\/a><\/sup>\u2014were challenged by his T\u00fcbingen colleague in ancient history, Frank Kolb, who questioned whether Troy was as large or as significant an urban center as Korfmann had claimed, and the whole thing escalated into what a recent volume calls <em>Der neue Streit um Troia<\/em>.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_3_605\" id=\"identifier_3_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Ulf 2003; cf. Jablonka and Rose 2004; Kolb 2004.\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven years later, Latacz, now professor emeritus of Greek at Basel (the chair once held by Friedrich Nietzsche) serves as the guiding spirit of a far less incendiary sequel to the earlier show. Marshalling a large and diverse team of archaeologists, classicists, art historians, and museum curators\u2014some of whom participated in the earlier project, most notably Peter Blome, director of Basel\u2019s Antikenmuseum\u2014Latacz presents an encyclopedic review of \u201cEverything You (or Your Students) Ever Wanted to Know About Homer\u201d in a dizzyingly varied assortment of 230 objects: from Bronze and Iron Age artifacts, Attic vases, and Roman sculpture to Old Master paintings and Hollywood movie posters of the early 20th century. A sumptuous door-stopper of a catalogue provides concise scholarly entries on each object (something missing from the <em>Troia<\/em> catalogue), along with some 30 essays by prominent scholars summarizing the current state of our knowledge on every aspect of the Homeric epic poems, their historical and archaeological background, and their reception in art and literature down to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The installation, spread out over two floors of galleries on the lower level of the Antikenmuseum, is organized around four overarching themes: Homer and his time (i.e., the late eighth and early seventh centuries B.C.E., when the poet we call Homer is thought to have lived and worked); the \u201cprehistory of Homeric poetry\u201d (i.e., the Mycenaean period of the later second millennium B.C.E., when the epic poems are ostensibly set); Homer\u2019s <em>Iliad<\/em> and <em>Odyssey<\/em>; and the transmission and influence of Homeric epic from Roman times to the present. Entering the show, the visitor is immediately confronted by a phalanx of imaginary portraits of the blind poet Homer (<a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Fig. 1. Installation view of the exhibition section &quot;Homer und seine Zeit&quot;: foreground, marble portrait head of Homer, ht. 39.7 cm, Roman copy of a Greek original of ca. 460 B.C.E. \" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro01.jpg\">fig. 1<\/a>), mainly in busts and reliefs but also on coins. Here, one of the premises of the show is announced at the outset: in its desire to educate and inform, the exhibition mixes and juxtaposes every kind of object with democratic abandon. Antiquities are not privileged over derivative later works (e.g., a Wedgwood bust of Homer)<sup><a href=\"#footnote_4_605\" id=\"identifier_4_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Antikensammlung, inv. no. N 144 (Latacz et al. 2008, 299, no. 13).\">4<\/a><\/sup> or originals over reproductions. When objects deemed essential for the didactic aims of the show could not be obtained (e.g., the Dipylon jug in Athens,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_5_605\" id=\"identifier_5_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Athens, National Museum, inv. no. 192 (2074) (Latacz et al. 2008, 320&ndash;21, no. 46).\">5<\/a><\/sup> the Apotheosis of Homer relief in the British Museum,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_6_605\" id=\"identifier_6_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"London, British Museum, inv. no. 2191 (Latacz et al. 2008, 297&ndash;98, no. 11).\">6<\/a><\/sup> the Hoby cups in Copenhagen,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_7_605\" id=\"identifier_7_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Copenhagen, Danish National Museum, inv. nos. dfn. 9\/20, dfn. 10\/20 (Latacz et al. 2008, 385, no. 127).\">7<\/a><\/sup> sculptures from Sperlonga<sup><a href=\"#footnote_8_605\" id=\"identifier_8_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Sperlonga, Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Latacz et al. 2008, 414&ndash;15, no. 168).\">8<\/a><\/sup>), modern reproductions have been substituted. Since many equally famous pieces are here in the original, one needs to read the labels carefully, but that is clearly not the point. Large photograph murals on nearly every wall complement the objects, creating almost a sensory overload of experience, though never really distracting from the carefully grouped and brilliantly lighted works of art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone fancybox\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig. 1. Installation view of the exhibition section &#8220;Homer und seine Zeit&#8221;: foreground, marble portrait head of Homer, ht. 39.7 cm, Roman copy of a Greek original of ca. 460 B.C.E.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The show, of course, draws heavily on the astonishing riches of its host institution, Basel\u2019s Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection, which is unique for building in a mere 50 years an encyclopedic collection that rivals the depth and quality of much older museums in Europe and North America. These are supplemented with international loans, all chosen with great care and thoughtfulness for artistic quality and educational value, drawn from more than 80 museums and collections throughout Europe. For example, a relatively small gallery devoted to artifacts of the eighth century B.C.E. (\u201cHomer\u2019s time\u201d) and the Orientalizing period of the seventh century includes two astonishing works from the museums in Basel and Karlsruhe. This allows a comparison between the Geometric-style bronze tripod cauldron of the eighth century (<a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Fig. 2. Greek bronze tripod cauldron, probably from a Corinthian workshop, ht. (with restorations) 100 cm, ca. 750 B.C.E. Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Ca 1 (after Latacz et al. 2008, no. 14; courtesy Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig).\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro02.jpg\">fig. 2<\/a>)<sup><a href=\"#footnote_9_605\" id=\"identifier_9_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Ca 1 (Latacz et al. 2008, no. 14).\">9<\/a><\/sup>\u2014in which the three legs and bowl are fused into a single object\u2014and the orientalizing model of a century later, with its separately worked, deep bowl; ornamented rim with three protomes of winged bulls\u2019 heads; and elaborate three-legged stand with bulls\u2019 hoofs for feet.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_10_605\" id=\"identifier_10_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum, inv. no. 80\/8 (Latacz et al. 2008, 309&ndash;10, no. 28).\">10<\/a><\/sup> The Geometric tripod has been restored, with the addition of the lower legs and the two large, round handles, each topped by a small horse, in order to give the full effect of these impressive monuments that have been found in large numbers at Olympia. An unusual feature that does survive consists of the small bulls\u2019 heads attached to the insides of the legs, just below the join of legs to cauldron. This element had previously been attested only for the very earliest of such objects, dating to the ninth century, while the Basel example is dated to the mid eighth.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_11_605\" id=\"identifier_11_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"See Papalexandrou (2005, 67&ndash;8), who speaks of these little bulls&rsquo; heads as &ldquo;a result of the need to put into effect the force inherent in the bull and his image.&rdquo;\">11<\/a><\/sup> Along with the tripod cauldrons, there are a few choice Late Geometric vases and bronze horses, Nimrud ivories, an Urartian helmet, Phoenician silver bowls and a tridacna shell, early Etruscan bucchero, and a remarkable late eighth-century tomb complex from Eretria (iron sword and seal, bronze bowl). In short, these objects\u2014some imported from the East, some made in Greece itself\u2014provide a crash course in the explosion of artistic creativity that engulfed the Greek world in the century after the end of the Dark Ages.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_12_605\" id=\"identifier_12_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 300&ndash;18.\">12<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone fancybox\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro02.jpg 276w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro02-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig. 2. Greek bronze tripod cauldron, probably from a Corinthian workshop, ht. (with restorations) 100 cm, ca. 750 B.C.E. Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Ca 1 (after Latacz et al. 2008, no. 14; courtesy Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eschewing a chronological presentation in favor of making thematic points, the next section (\u201cPrehistory of Homeric Poetry\u201d) goes back in time to present a handful of Bronze Age objects that can be loosely connected to the Homeric poems (Linear B tablets, metal vessels, clay rhyta, a boar\u2019s tusk helmet)<sup><a href=\"#footnote_13_605\" id=\"identifier_13_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 324&ndash;33.\">13<\/a><\/sup> and then suddenly moves forward to the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., where several vases with symposium scenes (a Corinthian krater, two Attic cups, and a stamnos) are meant to represent the setting for the performance of Homer\u2019s poems.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_14_605\" id=\"identifier_14_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 334&ndash;36.\">14<\/a><\/sup> For many visitors\u2014especially those unable read the German explanatory texts\u2014this abrupt detour may be puzzling. But the vases themselves are splendid, and for the specialist, the four vases give a fascinating glimpse of the development of symposium iconography over a century and a half: bearded men sharing the klinai with their seminude hetairai on the Corinthian krater of ca. 600\u2013575 B.C.E.;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_15_605\" id=\"identifier_15_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Paris, Mus&eacute;e du Louvre, inv. no. E 629 (Latacz et al. 2008, 334, no. 66).\">15<\/a><\/sup> two young male drinkers with a nude hetaira on an archaic cup by the Epeleios Painter of ca. 510 B.C.E.;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_16_605\" id=\"identifier_16_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Lu 35 (Latacz et al. 2008, 334&ndash;35, no. 67).\">16<\/a><\/sup> a gathering of five bearded men with one nude serving boy (but no women) on one side of the Late Archaic cup by Douris of ca. 480 B.C.E.;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_17_605\" id=\"identifier_17_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum, inv. no. 70\/395 (BAPD, no. 4704; Latacz et al. 2008, 335&ndash;36, no. 68; Weiss 1990, pls. 30&ndash;2).\">17<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> and a pair of bearded and beardless male lovers sharing one couch on the High Classical stamnos of ca. 430 B.C.E. as they listen to a female <em>aulete<\/em> (aulos player), while a second youth and the nude slave boy exchange glances.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_18_605\" id=\"identifier_18_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, inv. no. 33.8 (2410) (Latacz et al. 2008, 336, no. 69).\">18<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these early galleries, the sequence of photograph murals is also somewhat odd: Mycenae, the theater at Delphi, Troy\u2019s landscape, Grave Circle A at Mycenae, and the so-called Throne Room of the palace at Knossos shown in a famous watercolor reconstruction. They soon become more like colorful wallpaper than integral elements in the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The transition from these preliminary galleries to the larger core of the show, on the lower level, is effected by way of some chairs and headphones. One can relax while listening to passages from Homer read in Greek and German and glance at a display case with older and newer editions of the bard\u2019s works, along with Latacz\u2019s new <em>Iliad<\/em> commentary.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_19_605\" id=\"identifier_19_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz 2000.\">19<\/a><\/sup> One feels like a pupil in a <em>humanistisches<\/em> Gymnasium of Nietzsche\u2019s era, steeped in Greek and Latin from early childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the lower level is dedicated to a step-by-step retelling of the Trojan Cycle through the visual arts, from archaic Greek vases to adaptations in later Western art.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_20_605\" id=\"identifier_20_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Much of the same ground, though without objects from periods later than antiquity, was covered in a recent exhibition in Munich (W&uuml;nsche 2006). This is one of a series of thematic exhibitions showcasing the extensive holdings of Munich&rsquo;s Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek that are not loan exhibitions. The most recent one, on ancient Greek women (Starke Frauen), opened in June 2008.\">20<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This large section is prefaced, appropriately enough, by the splendid dinos attributed to the Berlin Painter from the Antikenmuseum\u2019s collection, which ostensibly depicts Zeus\u2019 departure by chariot from Mount Olympus.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_21_605\" id=\"identifier_21_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Lu 39 (BAPD, no. 308; Latacz et al. 2008, 338&ndash;39, no. 70).\">21<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This episode, though not specifically recounted in surviving literary sources, is a convenient pretext for an extensive gathering of many Olympian gods who play such important roles as observers of, and occasionally participants in, the events of the Trojan War (<a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Fig. 3. Athenian red-figure dinos with a gathering of Olympian gods and perhaps Herakles, ht. 32.5 cm, ca. 480 B.C. Attributed to the Berlin Painter. Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Lu 39 (after Latacz et al. 2008, no. 70; courtesy Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig).\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro03.jpg\">fig. 3<\/a>). The one enigmatic figure is a bearded man with no attribute other than a knotty staff and who looks more mortal than god. The catalogue entry, by Andrea Bignasca, suggests he could be a typical Athenian citizen to whom the gods appear in a kind of epiphany. I had earlier argued that most such gatherings (<em>G\u00f6tterversammlungen<\/em>) of the Olympian gods on Late Archaic vases are motivated by the introduction of Herakles to Olympus after his apotheosis,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_22_605\" id=\"identifier_22_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Shapiro 1989, 135&ndash;39.\">22<\/a><\/sup> and I wonder if this could indeed be the hero in the \u201ccivilian\u201d dress that he sometimes dons in this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone fancybox\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro03.jpg 375w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro03-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig. 3. Athenian red-figure dinos with a gathering of Olympian gods and perhaps Herakles, ht. 32.5 cm, ca. 480 B.C. Attributed to the Berlin Painter. Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Lu 39 (after Latacz et al. 2008, no. 70; courtesy Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point in the exhibition, the name \u201cHomer\u201d becomes a convenient synonym for a much wider range of stories than those told in the two surviving epic poems attributed to Homer himself. To give some obvious examples: all the episodes treated in the first part of this section\u2014the Judgment of Paris, Helen\u2019s birth and her abduction from Sparta, the childhood of Achilles, and the death of Troilos at the hands of Achilles\u2014took place well before the <em>Iliad<\/em> begins. Although told in now-lost parts of the Epic Cycle, they are necessary in the exhibition to set the scene for the <em>Iliad<\/em> episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is more surprising, however, is the grouping of objects in each of these sections. Literary and pedagogical considerations once again trump more conventional art historical principles. In most thematic exhibitions of ancient art of this kind, a small selection of post-Antique works of art would be reserved for a \u201ccoda\u201d at the end of the installation, to illustrate the continuity, or the <em>Nachleben<\/em>, of the theme. Here, instead, each episode is represented by what looks like as disparate an assortment of examples as the organizers could find: for the Judgment of Paris, for example, Attic and South Italian vases, an Etruscan mirror, a woodcut, a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder from the early 1500s, and another German painting of ca. 1600.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_23_605\" id=\"identifier_23_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 339&ndash;46.\">23<\/a><\/sup> The next section, on Helen and Paris, is even more heterogeneous, moving from the famous Late Geometric bowl in London that may show the pair eloping in his ship, an Etruscan mirror, and an Attic black-figure cup to a woodcut after Raphael and an 18th-century German porcelain group.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_24_605\" id=\"identifier_24_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 347&ndash;50.\">24<\/a><\/sup> Yet the exhibition does not seriously engage with the art historical question of how classical themes were reworked in later periods or in what form these myths reached artists of, say, the Northern Renaissance. This is reserved for the catalogue, while the viewer is left with remarkable juxtapositions that some will find amusing, others disorienting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although European paintings are relatively few in number throughout the show, they betray a local Swiss pride in favoring the work of Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich F\u00fcssli, 1741\u20131825) and Arnold B\u00f6cklin (1827\u20131901), as well as Old Masters of various nationalities who, like the two works by Cranach, have come from the Kunstmuseum Basel, literally across the road. This eclectic technique makes for some extremely odd and jarring juxtapositions, such as the well-known Late Geometric oinochoe in Munich that may show Odysseus as the sole survivor of a shipwreck (Hom. <em>Od<\/em>. 12.420\u201325)<sup><a href=\"#footnote_25_605\" id=\"identifier_25_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, inv. no. 8696 (Latacz et al. 2008, 410, no. 162).\">25<\/a><\/sup> alongside the epic poem\u2019s next episode: his rescue by the sea nymph Ino-Leukothea (Hom. <em>Od<\/em>. 5.333\u201350), as told in an eerie Fuseli painting of 1805\u20131810.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_26_605\" id=\"identifier_26_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 410&ndash;11.\">26<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But setting such odd combinations aside, the backbone of the show\u2019s Homeric iconography is, not surprisingly, Greek (and especially Attic) vases. This is one of the great strengths of the collection of Basel\u2019s Antikenmuseum, here supplemented by loans from all over Europe (but not the United States\u2014the only loans from this country are the Hollywood movie posters from the Tampa, Florida, collector William Knight Zewadski and the video installation mentioned below).<sup><a href=\"#footnote_27_605\" id=\"identifier_27_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Infra n. 47.\">27<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For anyone who has taught (or studied) Greek art, one of the great pleasures of the show is seeing so many much-loved textbook pieces in one space: the Late Geometric bowl just mentioned,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_28_605\" id=\"identifier_28_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"London, British Museum, inv. no. GR 1899.2-19.1 (Latacz et al. 2008, 348, no. 81).\">28<\/a><\/sup> the Aristonothos krater from Rome with the blinding of Polyphemos,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_29_605\" id=\"identifier_29_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Rome, Musei Capitolini, inv. no. Castellani 172 (Latacz et al. 2008, 417, no. 170).\">29<\/a><\/sup> the Chiusi skyphos with <em>Odyssey<\/em> scenes on both sides,<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_30_605\" id=\"identifier_30_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. no. 62705 (ARV&sup2;, 1300, no. 2; Beazley Addenda&sup2; 360; Latacz et al. 2008, 432&ndash;33, no. 192).\">30<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> the Berlin Sosias cup with Achilles tending Patroklos\u2019 wound,<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_31_605\" id=\"identifier_31_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Antikensammlung, inv. no. F 2278 (ARV&sup2;, 21, no. 1; Beazley Addenda&sup2; 154; Latacz et al. 2008, 372, no. 108).\">31<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> the great skyphos by the Brygos Painter from Vienna with the ransom of Hektor,<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_32_605\" id=\"identifier_32_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung, inv. no. IV 3710 (ARV&sup2;, 380, no. 171; Beazley Addenda&sup2; 227; Latacz et al. 2008, 384&ndash;85, no. 126).\">32<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> and many others. For the specialist, an added pleasure is seeing some very fine pieces from out-of-the-way museums, such as an amphora by the Achilles Painter from Metaponto that depicts Paris delicately holding a bow and arrows and setting out for battle;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_33_605\" id=\"identifier_33_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Metaponto, Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, inv. no. 20113 (Latacz et al. 2008, 367&ndash;68, no. 102).\">33<\/a><\/sup> an unusual kantharos by the Eretria Painter from Gravina in Apulia with unique subjects on both sides (the unsuccessful embassy of Menelaos and Odysseus to Troy where they are received by the family of Antenor, and Hektor and Paris departing for battle with Kassandra and Apollo<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_34_605\" id=\"identifier_34_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Gravina di Puglia, Fondazione Pomarici Santomasi, inv. no. Ta 177009 (BAPD, no. 8063; Latacz et al. 2008, 378&ndash;79, no. 117).\">34<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>); and a number of little-known fragments from the collection of the late Herbert A. Cahn (a founding sponsor of the Antikenmuseum), such as a cup that may fairly be called the masterpiece of the Euaion Painter, with the story of Philoktetes, and (possibly) the contest for the arms of Achilles.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_35_605\" id=\"identifier_35_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. HC 1738 (BAPD, no. 43268; Latacz et al. 2008, 395&ndash;96, no. 140).\">35<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One minor quibble: several vitrines in these spacious galleries are too close to the wall, making it impossible to see both sides of some of the vases. If one side is not directly related to the Homeric theme, it cannot be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_35_605\" id=\"identifier_36_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. HC 1738 (BAPD, no. 43268; Latacz et al. 2008, 395&ndash;96, no. 140).\">35<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This even happens to one vase where both sides are relevant and surely form a kind of programmatic pair: the remarkable Basel stamnos attributed to the Triptolemos Painter (<a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Fig. 4. Athenian red-figure stamnos: top, the embassy to Achilles in book 9 of the Iliad; bottom, warriors fighting over a dead ram, ht. 35.6 cm, ca. 480 B.C. Attributed to the Triptolemos Painter. Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 477 (after Latacz et al. 2008, no. 104; courtesy Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig).\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro04.jpg\">fig. 4<\/a>) is displayed so that we see only the embassy to Achilles on the obverse but not the enigmatic reverse with two warriors fighting over a dead ram that seems to be labeled as Patroklos.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><sup><a href=\"#footnote_36_605\" id=\"identifier_37_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 477 (BAPD, no. 203796; Latacz et al. 2008, 369, no. 104).\">36<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> If, as Peter Blome tentatively suggests in the catalogue entry, the two warriors should be Achilles and Hektor after the death of Patroklos at the hands of Hektor, the scene on the reverse represents a direct response to the embassy on the other side of the vase. Whereas during the embassy, nothing could induce Achilles to rejoin the battle (symbolized by his abstracted pose and refusal to engage with Odysseus who sits opposite him), he has now done precisely that, moved to action by the death of his friend Patroklos. We need to turn to the catalogue for good juxtaposed images of the two sides of the stamnos, but elsewhere the catalogue inexplicably omits illustrations of the reverse of some vases, even when they pertain to the Homeric theme.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_37_605\" id=\"identifier_38_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"E.g., the Achilles Painter amphora (supra n. 33). The reverse shows a worried old man who must be Priam (Oakley 1997, pls. 7A, 7B).\">37<\/a><\/sup> At times like this, the Basel show seems to be an art exhibition designed by a philologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone fancybox\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro04.jpg 375w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro04-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig. 4. Athenian red-figure stamnos: top, the embassy to Achilles in book 9 of the Iliad; bottom, warriors fighting over a dead ram, ht. 35.6 cm, ca. 480 B.C. Attributed to the Triptolemos Painter. Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 477 (after Latacz et al. 2008, no. 104; courtesy Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The section on the <em>Odyssey<\/em> has, if anything, an even more shockingly miscellaneous assortment of objects than that on the <em>Iliad<\/em>, from the Late Geometric oinochoe with (perhaps) the shipwrecked Odysseus<sup><a href=\"#footnote_38_605\" id=\"identifier_39_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Supra n. 25.\">38<\/a><\/sup> to B\u00f6cklin\u2019s bizarrely droll take on the Sirens (1875).<sup><a href=\"#footnote_39_605\" id=\"identifier_40_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 428, no. 186.\">39<\/a><\/sup> An exhibition highlight is the remarkable Corinthian aryballos of ca. 590 B.C.E., with a very early and somewhat problematic version of the Sirens episode (<a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Fig. 5. Corinthian aryballos: left, Herakles fighting the Hydra; right, Odysseus and the Sirens, ht. 14.5 cm, ca. 590 B.C.E. Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 425 (after Latacz et al. 2008, no. 183; courtesy Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig).\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro05.jpg\">fig. 5<\/a>); it is also one of the treasures of Basel\u2019s own vase collection.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_40_605\" id=\"identifier_41_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 425 (Latacz et al. 2008, 426, no. 183).\">40<\/a><\/sup> Here, the principal scene\u2014Herakles and Iolaos fighting the Hydra under the watchful eye of Athena\u2014takes up most of the surface of the vase, while the <em>Odyssey<\/em> scene is relegated to the handle zone. The narrative continuity of these two seemingly unrelated pictures is difficult to explain: the one unmistakable Siren, hovering behind Athena, is placed far from the ship of Odysseus, while a menagerie of other creatures\u2014two lizards, an owl, and a large bird that does not appear to be a Siren\u2014is scattered over the vase. Amyx was not convinced of the interpretation,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_41_605\" id=\"identifier_42_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Amyx 1988, 1:180&ndash;81.\">41<\/a><\/sup> though the towering figure astride the ship\u2019s mast who gestures with his arms could hardly be anyone other than Odysseus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone fancybox\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro05.jpg 650w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1131_Shapiro05-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig. 5. Corinthian aryballos: left, Herakles fighting the Hydra; right, Odysseus and the Sirens, ht. 14.5 cm, ca. 590 B.C.E. Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 425 (after Latacz et al. 2008, no. 183; courtesy Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The large and very miscellaneous final section on transmission and reception loses some of the coherence of the earlier, more structured sections but has some individual treasures. It opens with one of the finest and best preserved of the Tabulae Iliacae, those remarkable marble slabs of the first century B.C.E. that combine large chunks of text summarizing episodes from the <em>Iliad<\/em> and other parts of the Epic Cycle with superimposed friezes of scenes in low relief, such as the bird\u2019s-eye view of the Sack of Troy on this example.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_42_605\" id=\"identifier_43_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Rome, Musei Capitolini, inv. no. 316 (Latacz et al. 2008, 440, no. 199).\">42<\/a><\/sup> The transmission section features texts of Homer in every medium from papyri to codices, Byzantine and Western medieval illuminated manuscripts, and early printed books.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_43_605\" id=\"identifier_44_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 440&ndash;55.\">43<\/a><\/sup> Three Daumier lithographs on <em>Odyssey<\/em> themes from his <em>Histoire ancienne<\/em> series (1842) are charming,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_44_605\" id=\"identifier_45_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 462&ndash;63, no. 226.\">44<\/a><\/sup> while a cycle of four large quasi-abstract paintings by the contemporary German artist Sigmar Polke at the very end (<em>Der Traum des Menelaos I\u2013IV<\/em>, 1982) is quite powerful.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_45_605\" id=\"identifier_46_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 467&ndash;71, no. 230.\">45<\/a><\/sup> A video installation by the Philadelphia artist Peter Rose, set in an empty parking garage, does not contribute much to the theme beyond its title, \u201cOdysseus in Ithaca.\u201d<sup><a href=\"#footnote_46_605\" id=\"identifier_47_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Latacz et al. 2008, 467, no. 229.\">46<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The catalogue is destined to be a standard reference work long after the show (which has a second venue in Mannheim during the fall and winter of 2008\u20132009)<sup><a href=\"#footnote_47_605\" id=\"identifier_48_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Mannheim, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen mit Curt Engelhorn-Zentrum, 13 September 2008&ndash;18 January 2009.\">47<\/a><\/sup> has closed. The contributors of essays include a stellar group of classicists from Germany (Hellmut Flashar, Bernd Seidensticker, Arbogast Schmitt, Anton Bierl) and beyond (Stephanie West, Martin West, Irene de Jong), as well as some equally distinguished archaeologists (Erika Simon, Wolf-Deitrich Niemeier). Latacz\u2019s inspiration is felt throughout but does not dominate as it did in the earlier exhibition and catalogue. Every conceivable topic in Homeric studies\u2014philological, historical, iconographical\u2014is addressed in one place or another, often by the scholars who have done the most in the past to bring us to the current state of our knowledge. Nevertheless, whole schools of Homeric scholarship, especially based in this country (Gregory Nagy, Richard Janko\u2014only Nagy\u2019s <em>Pindar\u2019s Homer <\/em>and nothing of Janko is cited in the 21-page bibliography)<sup><a href=\"#footnote_48_605\" id=\"identifier_49_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Nagy 1990. E.g., Janko 1982; most recently, Nagy 2004.\">48<\/a><\/sup> are not represented. But an exhibition catalogue is not the place to refight those battles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one will come away from this exhibition without being greatly enriched by the experience. One lesson of both the exhibition and the catalogue is that the subject of Homer and his influence is so vast and multifaceted that no single individual could master it all. It requires a collaboration of many specialists in archaeology and art history, philology, papyrology and text criticism, history, and mythology. The dream team assembled for this project represents the best that the German-speaking world of scholarship has to offer (with a thin veneer of internationalism provided by the Wests). An English translation of the catalogue would be an enormously valuable tool for a wide range of students and scholars but seems unlikely to happen, as the exhibition\u2019s only venues are Basel and Mannheim. The exclusively German labeling and wall texts are a little surprising in multilingual and cosmopolitan Basel, and the long passages from Homer scattered throughout the exhibition are probably more than even a German-speaking visitor can enjoy without devoting at least an entire day to the show. But the objects speak a universal language that should captivate visitors ranging from schoolchildren to scholars. It seems fitting that Basel, a great center of Renaissance humanism, should take the lead in putting Homer once again front and center in the Western tradition and in showing his enduring appeal to virtually every new generation of students and scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Classics<br>Johns Hopkins University<br>Baltimore, Maryland 21218<br>ashapir1@jhu.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Works Cited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amyx, D.A. 1988. <em>Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period<\/em>. 3 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Himmelmann, N. 1998. \u201cThe Divine Assembly on the Sosias Cup.\u201d In <em>Reading Greek Art: Essays by Nikolaos Himmelmann<\/em>, edited by W. Childs, 139\u201355. Princeton: Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jablonka, P., and C.B. Rose. 2004. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/2012\/10\/12\/1419\/\">A Response to Frank Kolb<\/a>.\u201d <em>AJA<\/em> 108(4):615\u201330.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Janko, R. 1982. <em>Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kolb, F. 2004. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/2012\/10\/12\/1418\/\">Troy VI: A Trading Center and Commmercial City?<\/a>\u201d <em>AJA<\/em> 108(4):577\u2013614.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latacz, J., ed. 2000. <em>Homers Ilias: Gesamtkommentar<\/em>. Vol. 1. Munich: K.G. Sauer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latacz, J. 2001a. <em>Troia\u2013Traum und Wirklichkeit<\/em>. Exhibition catalogue. Stuttgart: W\u00fcrtemburgisches Landesmuseum and K. Theiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latacz, J. 2001b. <em>Troia und Homer: Der Weg zur L\u00f6sung eines alten R\u00e4tsels<\/em>. Munich: Koehler &amp; Amelang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latacz, J. 2004. <em>Troy and Homer: Toward a Solution of an Old Mystery<\/em>. Translated by K. Windle and R. Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nagy, G. 1990. <em>Pindar\u2019s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past<\/em>. Baltimore:&nbsp;The Johns Hopkins University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nagy, G. 2004. <em>Homer\u2019s Text and Language<\/em>. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oakley, J.H. 1997. <em>The Achilles Painter.<\/em> Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papalexandrou, N. 2005. <em>The Visual Poetics of Power: Warriors, Youths, and Tripods in Early Greece<\/em>. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shapiro, H.A. 1989. <em>Art and Cult Under the Tyrants in Athens. <\/em>Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ulf, C., ed. 2003. <em>Der neue Streit um Troia: Eine Bilanz<\/em>. Munich: C.H. Beck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weiss, C. 1990.<em> Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Germany 60. Karlsruhe 3: Badisches Landesmuseum.<\/em> Munich: C.H. Beck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W\u00fcnsche, R. 2006. <em>Mythos Troja<\/em>. Munich: Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, in association with Hirmer.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz 2001a.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_1_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_2_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz 2001b, 2004.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_2_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_3_605\" class=\"footnote\">Ulf 2003; cf. Jablonka and Rose 2004; Kolb 2004.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_3_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_4_605\" class=\"footnote\">Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Antikensammlung, inv. no. N 144 (Latacz et al. 2008, 299, no. 13).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_4_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_5_605\" class=\"footnote\">Athens, National Museum, inv. no. 192 (2074) (Latacz et al. 2008, 320\u201321, no. 46).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_5_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_6_605\" class=\"footnote\">London, British Museum, inv. no. 2191 (Latacz et al. 2008, 297\u201398, no. 11).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_6_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_7_605\" class=\"footnote\">Copenhagen, Danish National Museum, inv. nos. dfn. 9\/20, dfn. 10\/20 (Latacz et al. 2008, 385, no. 127).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_7_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_8_605\" class=\"footnote\">Sperlonga, Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Latacz et al. 2008, 414\u201315, no. 168).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_8_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_9_605\" class=\"footnote\">Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Ca 1 (Latacz et al. 2008, no. 14).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_9_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_10_605\" class=\"footnote\">Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum, inv. no. 80\/8 (Latacz et al. 2008, 309\u201310, no. 28).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_10_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_11_605\" class=\"footnote\">See Papalexandrou (2005, 67\u20138), who speaks of these little bulls\u2019 heads as \u201ca result of the need to put into effect the force inherent in the bull and his image.\u201d<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_11_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_12_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 300\u201318.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_12_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_13_605\" class=\"footnote\"> Latacz et al. 2008, 324\u201333.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_13_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_14_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 334\u201336.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_14_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_15_605\" class=\"footnote\">Paris, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, inv. no. E 629 (Latacz et al. 2008, 334, no. 66).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_15_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_16_605\" class=\"footnote\">Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Lu 35 (Latacz et al. 2008, 334\u201335, no. 67).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_16_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_17_605\" class=\"footnote\">Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum, inv. no. 70\/395 (<em>BAPD<\/em>, no. 4704; Latacz et al. 2008, 335\u201336, no. 68; Weiss 1990, pls. 30\u20132).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_17_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_18_605\" class=\"footnote\">Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, inv. no. 33.8 (2410) (Latacz et al. 2008, 336, no. 69).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_18_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_19_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz 2000.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_19_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_20_605\" class=\"footnote\">Much of the same ground, though without objects from periods later than antiquity, was covered in a recent exhibition in Munich (W\u00fcnsche 2006). This is one of a series of thematic exhibitions showcasing the extensive holdings of Munich\u2019s Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek that are not loan exhibitions. The most recent one, on ancient Greek women (<em>Starke Frauen<\/em>), opened in June 2008.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_20_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_21_605\" class=\"footnote\">Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. Lu 39 (<em>BAPD<\/em>, no. 308; Latacz et al. 2008, 338\u201339, no. 70).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_21_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_22_605\" class=\"footnote\">Shapiro 1989, 135\u201339.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_22_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_23_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 339\u201346.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_23_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_24_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 347\u201350.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_24_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_25_605\" class=\"footnote\">Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, inv. no. 8696 (Latacz et al. 2008, 410, no. 162).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_25_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_26_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 410\u201311.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_26_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_27_605\" class=\"footnote\">Infra n. 47.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_27_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_28_605\" class=\"footnote\">London, British Museum, inv. no. GR 1899.2-19.1 (Latacz et al. 2008, 348, no. 81).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_28_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_29_605\" class=\"footnote\">Rome, Musei Capitolini, inv. no. Castellani 172 (Latacz et al. 2008, 417, no. 170).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_29_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_30_605\" class=\"footnote\">Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. no. 62705 (<em>ARV<\/em>\u00b2, 1300, no. 2; <em>Beazley Addenda<\/em>\u00b2 360; Latacz et al. 2008, 432\u201333, no. 192).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_30_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_31_605\" class=\"footnote\">Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Antikensammlung, inv. no. F 2278 (<em>ARV<\/em>\u00b2, 21, no. 1; <em>Beazley Addenda<\/em>\u00b2 154; Latacz et al. 2008, 372, no. 108).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_31_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_32_605\" class=\"footnote\">Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung, inv. no. IV 3710 (<em>ARV<\/em>\u00b2, 380, no. 171; <em>Beazley Addenda<\/em>\u00b2 227; Latacz et al. 2008, 384\u201385, no. 126).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_32_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_33_605\" class=\"footnote\">Metaponto, Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, inv. no. 20113 (Latacz et al. 2008, 367\u201368, no. 102).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_33_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_34_605\" class=\"footnote\">Gravina di Puglia, Fondazione Pomarici Santomasi, inv. no. Ta 177009 (<em>BAPD<\/em>, no. 8063; Latacz et al. 2008, 378\u201379, no. 117).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_34_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_35_605\" class=\"footnote\">Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. HC 1738 (<em>BAPD<\/em>, no. 43268; Latacz et al. 2008, 395\u201396, no. 140).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_35_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_36_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_36_605\" class=\"footnote\">Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 477 (<em>BAPD<\/em>, no. 203796; Latacz et al. 2008, 369, no. 104).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_37_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_37_605\" class=\"footnote\">E.g., the Achilles Painter amphora (supra n. 33). The reverse shows a worried old man who must be Priam (Oakley 1997, pls. 7A, 7B).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_38_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_38_605\" class=\"footnote\">Supra n. 25.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_39_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_39_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 428, no. 186.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_40_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_40_605\" class=\"footnote\">Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 425 (Latacz et al. 2008, 426, no. 183).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_41_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_41_605\" class=\"footnote\">Amyx 1988, 1:180\u201381.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_42_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_42_605\" class=\"footnote\">Rome, Musei Capitolini, inv. no. 316 (Latacz et al. 2008, 440, no. 199).<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_43_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_43_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 440\u201355.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_44_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_44_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 462\u201363, no. 226.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_45_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_45_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 467\u201371, no. 230.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_46_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_46_605\" class=\"footnote\">Latacz et al. 2008, 467, no. 229.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_47_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_47_605\" class=\"footnote\">Mannheim, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen mit Curt Engelhorn-Zentrum, 13 September 2008\u201318 January 2009.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_48_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_48_605\" class=\"footnote\">Nagy 1990. E.g., Janko 1982; most recently, Nagy 2004.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_49_605\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homer: Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, 16 March\u201317 August 2008, conception and organization by Peter Blome, Suzanne Greub, and Alfried Wieczorek; scholarly direction by Joachim Latacz. 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