Cassandra and Clytemnestra

Ajax grasps Cassandra to drag her away Attic red figure hydria, c. 480-475 BCAttributed to the Kleophrades PainterNaples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 2422

Ajax drags Cassandra away from the statue of the goddess at which she had taken refuge. Lycurgus Painter, Red figure pottery, c. 370-360 BC

Ajax drags Cassandra from Palladium before eyes of Priam. Pompeii, House of Menander

Cassandra seeking the protection of Pallas Aimé Millet (French, 1819– -1891), at the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. Marble, 1877.

Cacoyannis’ Trojan Women (1971)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMk6sDTm1wo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emlahanas%2Ede%2FGreeks%2FMythology%2FCassandra%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

Ajax and Cassandra

Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1886

Death of Cassandra

The House of Atreus

Sacrifice of Iphigenia

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia1757by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Clytemnestra from the Battlements of Argos Watches for the Beacon Fires which are to Announce the ReFrederic Leighton1874

Death of Agamemnon, Aegisthos with sword. Detail from Athenian red-figure clay vase about 500-450 BC. Boston. Museum of Fine Arts 63.1246 W.F.Warden Fund

Clytemnestra After the Murder (1882), by Hon. John Collier (1850-1939).

Marble relief late 6th century found 1791 in the Temple of Diana at Lake Nemi, Ariccia.

Acquired by Copenhagen in 1898 from the Despuig Collection in Raxa, Mallorca.

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Inv. 1623.