“Next to this picture is portrayed another righteous deed, for which the painter derived his model,
I suppose, from Euripides or Sophocles, inasmuch as
they have portrayed the subject in the same way.
 In the Electra of each. But tais description is modelled
on Sophocles (1424 ff.). 
The two youthful comrades Pylades of Phocis and
Orestes (supposed to be dead) have secretly entered
the palace and are slaying Aegisthus. Clytemnestra
is already slain and is stretched on a bed half-naked,
and the whole household is stunned by tle deed—
some are shouting, apparently, and others casting
about for a way of escape. It was a noble device on
the painter’s part simply to indicate the impious
element in the undertaking and pass it over as an




 

accomplished fact, and to represent the young men
lingering over the slaying of the adulterer/

 

“Next is a handsome god and a pretty boy, a
scene of fond foolery. Branchus, sitting on a rock,
is holding up a hare and teasing his dog, while the
dog is apparently going to spring up at him; Apollo,
standing near, is smiling in amusement at the tricks
of the lad and the efforts of the dog.