Arts

Achilles tending the wounded Patroclus

(Attic red-figure kylix, c. 500 BC)

The Burning of Troy (1759/62), oil

painting by Johann Georg Trautmann

The Judgment of Paris (1904)

by Enrique Simonet

Thetis gives her son Achilles weapons forged

by Hephaestus (detail of Attic black-

figure hydria, 575–550 BC)

The Abduction of Helen (1530–39) by Francesco

Primaticcio, with Aphrodite directing

The Discovery of Achilles among the

Daughters of Lycomedes (1664)

by Jan de Bray

Philoctetes on Lemnos, with Heracles' bow

and quiver (Attic red-figure lekythos,

420 BCE)

Briseis and Achilles in a 17th-century book

illustration by Wenzel Hollar

Ajax and Achilles playing a board game

(Black-figure Atticlekythos, ca. 500 BC)

Chryses pleading with Agamemnon for

his daughter (360–350 BC)

Triumphant Achilles dragging Hector's body

around Troy, from a panoramic fresco of

the Achilleion

Achilles killing the Amazon Penthesilea

The suicide of Ajax (from a calyx-krater,

400–350 BC, Vulci)

The earliest known depiction of the Trojan

Horse, from the Mykonos vase ca. 670 BC

Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, kills King

Priam (detail of Attic black-figure

amphora, 520–510 BC)

The murder of Agamemnon (1879

illustration from Alfred Church's Stories

from the Greek Tragedians)

Odysseus and Polyphemus by Arnold Böcklin:

the Cyclops' curse delays the homecoming of

Odysseus for another ten years

Aeneas Flees Burning Troy (1598)

by Federico Barocci

Ajax and Achilles, Francois Vase