...n of Mentor. Andromache and Medesicaste are wearing hoods, but the hair of Polyxena is braided after the custom of maidens. Poets sing of her death at the tomb of Achilles, and both at Athens and at Pergamus on the Calcus I have seen the tragedy of Polyxena depicted in paintings. The artist has painted Nestor with a cap on his head and a spear in his hand. There is also a horse, in the attitude of one a...