Cygnus fights with the Trojans against the Greeks

A battlefield. In the foreground a group of horsemen are attacking a man on foot. Under their feet are the bodies of two more men and that of a horse in the process of falling. The men are dressed in long tunics with cuirasses and helmets. In the background, two men on horses fight. The one on the right is winged. The tops of spears and standards can be seen in the far back.

Engraving from an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published in Cologne. Rijks Museum RP-P-OB-15,966

Online Resources
Rijks Museum RP-P-OB-15,966
Subjects
Cycnus
Troy
Achilles
Agent
Crispijn van de Passe
Date
1602–1607 CE
Culture
German
Medium
Print
Dimensions
h. 85 mm, w. 132 mm
Inscription
Enmanibus pedibusq ciēt certamiā cruda Cygnus Achillei deridet fulminis ictus Troies cum Grais fata vocantq suos. Opprimitur sicca non min, ergo nece.
Location
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Image Credit
Rijksmuseum

Troy and Environs

Troy and Environs

Troy was situated in a strategically valuable piece of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. It was the site of the most famous war in Greek and Roman mythology, the Trojan War. It is the place from which Aeneas starts his journey. Aeneas and a group of Trojans leave the city when the Greeks, enemies of the Trojans, finally breech the walls and sack the city after years of siege warfare. Also known as Ilium and Pergamum.


Ancient coastline and elevation data supplied by the Ancient World Mapping Center.

Comments

Aeneid 2.21-22

Est in cōnspectū Tenedos, nōtissima fāmā

īnsula, dīves opum Priamī dum rēgna manēbant,

Aeneid 2.203-205

Ecce autem geminī ā Tenedō tranquilla per alta

(horrēscō referēns) immēnsīs orbibus anguēs

incumbunt pelagō pariterque ad lītora tendunt;

Aeneid 2.254-256

Et iam Argīva phalānx īnstrūctīs nāvibus ībat

ā Tenedō tacitae per amīca silentia lūnae

lītora nōta petēns, flammās cum rēgia puppis

Online Resources
Troy in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
Ilium/Troia on Pleiades
Tenedos in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
Tenedos on Pleiades
Associated Passages
Vergil, Aeneid II 21-39
Vergil, Aeneid II 195-233
Vergil, Aeneid II 250-267
Subjects
Vergil
Aeneid Maps
Troy
Type
Map
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Agent
Katy Purington
Date
June 2015
Medium
GIS
Image Credit
Katy Purington
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