Editing Protesilaus (section)

==Cultural depictions==
Among very few representations of Protesilaus,<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], in his travels in Greece at the end of the 2nd century AD saw no statues of Protesilaus, though he appeared among the heroes painted by [[Polygnotus]] at [[Delphi]] (x.30.3).</ref> a sculpture by [[Deinomenes_(sculptor)|Deinomenes]] is just a passing mention in [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]'s ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'';<ref>'Historia Naturalis, 34.76.</ref> the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original representing Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso at the [[British Museum]],<ref>Found at [[Cyzicus]] in [[Mysia]] (modern Turkey).</ref> the other at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<ref>Accession number 1925.25.116: Richter 1929b: [[Gisela M. A. Richter]], "A Statue of Protesilaos in the Metropolitan Museum" ''Metropolitan Museum Studies'' '''1'''.2 (May 1929:187-200).</ref> The Metropolitan's sculpture of a heroically nude [[Corinthian helmet|helmeted]] warrior stands on a forward-slanting base, looking down and slightly to his left, with his right arm raised, prepared to strike, would not be identifiable, save by comparison made by [[Gisela Richter]]<ref>Richter 1929b.</ref> with a torso of the same model and its associated slanting base, schematically carved as the prow of a ship encircled by waves: Protesilaus about to jump ashore.

[[Euripides]] had a tragedy named Protesilaus after him, but it is not one of his extant plays.<ref>So observed Gisela Richter, discussing the recently-acquired Metropolitan sculpture: Richter 1929a. "A Statue of Protesilaos" ''The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin'' '''24'''.1 (January 1929:26-29) p. 29.</ref>

The poem in the ''[[Palatine Anthology]]'' (VII.141) on Protesilaus by [[Antiphilus of Byzantium]] in turn inspired [[F. L. Lucas|F. L. Lucas's]] poem "The Elms of Protesilaus" (1927).<ref>New Statesman, 17 Dec. 1927, p.325, reprinted in ''The Best Poems of 1928'', ed. Thomas Moult (Cape, London, 1928;  Harcourt, Brace & Co, N.Y., 1928) and included with revisions in Lucas's ''Time and Memory'' (1929) and ''From Many Times and Lands'' (1951)</ref>