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Peter Paul Rubens-The Judgement of Paris

The Judgement of Paris probably 1632-5 RUBENS, Peter Paul London, The National Gallery 1577 - 1640...

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Two-handled amphora depicting Hephaistos polishing the shield of Achilles, Greek, Early Classical Period, about 480 B.C.

Side A: Hephaestos polishing the shield of Achilles in the presence of Thetis. In the field, a pair...

Uploaded on Feb 14, 2008

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Achilles wrapped up in dismay listening to Odysseus.

After a day of fighting in book 8, in which the Greeks lose pretty badly, Agamemnon agrees at the...

Uploaded on Feb 14, 2008

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This Attic red-figure crater has Hermes standing over the body as it is lifted by Sleep and Death directly, and Apollo does not appear.

Making good Nestor's fateful suggestion in book 11, Patroclus returns to Achilles' tent at...

Uploaded on Feb 14, 2008

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Athena supports Ajax, while Apollo supports Hector.

In book 7, as the first day of fighting draws to a close, Hector challenges the Greeks to single...

Uploaded on Feb 14, 2008

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This red-figure crater from Sicily (c500 BCE) shows, covered in a starry mantle, lifted off the field.

Patroclus' own death at the hands of Apollo, Euphorbus, and Hector, follows quickly...

Uploaded on Feb 14, 2008

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The body of Hector, with its many wounds, lies unrotting (thanks to Aphrodite's ambrosia treatment) under his couch.

Despite his rage, Achilles is persuaded by his mother, Thetis, to return the body of Hector to Priam...

Uploaded on Feb 14, 2008

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On the right you see Apollo turning to abandon his hero.

With his new weapons and his rage over the death of Patroclus, Achilles (after being forced by...

Uploaded on Feb 14, 2008

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Thetis brings the new armour to Achilles, who mourns his friend Patroclus

..Thetis returns to her son, who still weeps in the arms of the dead Patroclus. She gives him his...

Uploaded on Feb 13, 2008

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Thetis gives her son Achilles his weapons newly forged by Hephaestus, detail of an Attic black-figure hydria

Homer, Iliad 18. 136 & 18. 368 - 19. 23 : "[Thetis addresses her son Akhilleus at Troy :]...

Uploaded on Feb 13, 2008

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Achilles and Ajax at Draughts, Black Figure Ware Amphora, Greek, 540 BCE

This amphora shows the increasing skill of the Athenian vase painter in depicting the human form and...

Uploaded on Feb 13, 2008

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Full Menelaus intends to strike Helen; struck by her beauty, he drops his swords. A flying Eros and Aphrodite (on the left) watch the scene. Detail of an Attic red-figure crater, ca. 450–440 BC, found in Gnathia (now Italy).

Uploaded on Feb 13, 2008

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Two-handled amphora depicting Hephaistos polishing the shield of Achilles, Greek, Early Classical Period, about 480 B.C.

Achilles wrapped up in dismay listening to Odysseus.

This Attic red-figure crater has Hermes standing over the body as it is lifted by Sleep and Death directly, and Apollo does not appear.

Athena supports Ajax, while Apollo supports Hector.

This red-figure crater from Sicily (c500 BCE) shows, covered in a starry mantle, lifted off the field.

The body of Hector, with its many wounds, lies unrotting (thanks to Aphrodite's ambrosia treatment) under his couch.

On the right you see Apollo turning to abandon his hero.

Thetis brings the new armour to Achilles, who mourns his friend Patroclus

Thetis gives her son Achilles his weapons newly forged by Hephaestus, detail of an Attic black-figure hydria

Achilles and Ajax at Draughts, Black Figure Ware Amphora, Greek, 540 BCE

Full Menelaus intends to strike Helen; struck by her beauty, he drops his swords. A flying Eros and Aphrodite (on the left) watch the scene. Detail of an Attic red-figure crater, ca. 450–440 BC, found in Gnathia (now Italy).

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