Book 5
19.2
There is also Melanion by whom is Atalanta holding a young deer. Ajax is fighting a duel with Hector, according to the challenge,Hom. Il. 7.225 foll. and between the pair stands Strife in the form of a most repulsive woman. Another figure of Strife is in the sanctuary of Ephesian Artemis; Calliphon of Samos included it in his picture of the battle at the ships of the Greeks. On the chest are also the Dioscuri, one of them a beardless youth, and between them is Helen.
19.3
Aethra, the daughter of Pittheus, lies thrown to the ground under the feet at Helen. She is clothed in black, and the inscription upon the group is an hexameter line with the addition of a single word:The sons of Tyndareus are carrying of Helen, and are dragging AethraFrom Athens.Various attempts have been made to emend this inscription, which is obviously corrupt. None of them is satisfactory.
19.4
Such is the way this line is constructed. Iphidamas, the son of Antenor, is lying, and Coon is fighting for him against Agamemnon. On the shield of Agamemnon is Fear, whose head is a lion's. The inscription above the corpse of Iphidamas runs:Iphidamas, and this is Coon fighting for him.The inscription on the shield of Agamemnon runs:
19.5
This is the Fear of mortals: he who holds him is Agamemnon.There is also Hermes bringing to Alexander the son of Priam the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being:Here is Hermes, who is showing to Alexander, that he may arbitrateConcerning their beauty, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite.On what account Artemis has wings on her shoulders I do not know; in her right hand she grips a leopard, in her left a lion. Ajax too is represented dragging Cassandra from the image of Athena, and by him is also an inscription:Ajax of Locri is dragging Cassandra from Athena.
