“In the middle of the wall, above the postern Or perhaps, “rear window.” 
is constructed a shrine of Athena. The goddess is
‘of marble, and is not in harness but as a war-goddess.
would appear when at peace.

 

“Then we have another Athena, not of marble
this time, but in colours as before. Hephaestus is
pursuing her amorously; she is running away and
Erichthonius is being engendered of the chase.
 Mother Earth gave birth to him, not Athena. 

 
"On this there follows another prehistoric picture.
Orion, who is blind, is carrying Cedalion, and the
latter, riding on his back, is showing him the way
to the sunlight.

 
"The rising sun is healing the
blindness of Orion, and Hephaestus views the incident from Lemnos.
 
“Odysseus is next, feigning madness because




 

he does not want to make the campaign with the
sons of Atreus. The ambassadors are there to
summon him, All the details of his pretence are
true to life—the wagon, the ill-matched team,
 He yoked an ass and an ox together. 
the
folly of his actions. He is shown up, however, by
means of his child. Palamedes, son of Nauplius,
comprehending the situation, seizes Telemachus and
threatens, sword in hand, to kill him, meeting
Odysseus’ pretence of madness with a pretence of
anger. In the face of this fright Odysseus grows
sane, becomes a father and abandons his pretence.