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The Shield of Achilles, embellished with similar scenery to the Shield of Aeneas. Interpreted by Angelo Monticelli , from Le Costume Ancien ou Moderne , ca. 1820. Given that the shield is embellished by lavish pictures and intricate scenes, one of the most immediate interpretations is that the shield was primarily aesthetic in form and thus in ...
The shield's design as interpreted by Angelo Monticelli, from Le Costume Ancien ou Moderne, ca. 1820. The shield of Achilles is the shield that Achilles uses in his fight with Hector, described in a passage in Book 18, lines 478–608 of Homer's Iliad. The intricately detailed imagery on the shield has inspired many different interpretations of ...
One divine shield fell from heaven during the reign of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome. He ordered eleven copies made to confuse would-be thieves. (Roman mythology) Shield of Achilles, the shield that Achilles uses in his fight with Hector. (Greek mythology) Shield of Aeneas, the shield that Aeneas receives from Vulcan to aid in his war ...
The Shield of Achilles is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952, and the title work of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955. It is Auden's response to the detailed description, or ekphrasis , of the shield borne by the hero Achilles in Homer 's epic poem the Iliad .
The shield of Aeneas is described in book eight, from lines 629–719. [21] This shield was given to him by his mother, Venus, after she asked her husband Vulcan to create it. [21] This scene is almost identical to Thetis, the mother of Achilles, asking Hephaestus to create her son new weapons and armor for the battle of Troy.
Shield of Achilles; Shield of Aeneas; Shield of Heracles; Svalinn This page was last edited on 6 March 2022, at 04:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598 (Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy). In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ə s / ih-NEE-əs, [1] Latin: [äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]; from Ancient Greek: Αἰνείας, romanized: Aineíās) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus). [2]
Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Map of Aeneas' fictional journey. The Aeneid (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ɪ d / ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenēĭs [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.