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