Middle Ring of Achilles’ Shield: ARES AND ATHENA LEAD THE RAID

Published at 1451 × 726 in III. Middle Ring: WARTIME
Middle Ring: ARES AND ATHENA LEAD THE RAID. From the Shield of Achilles by Kathleen Vail © All Rights Reserved

Middle Ring: ARES AND ATHENA LEAD THE RAID. From the Shield of Achilles by Kathleen Vail
© All Rights Reserved

   

“The men filed out through a secret gate led by Ares and Athena.
So splendidly armed were these glorious two, ornate in immortal gold,
That men were small in comparison and humbly marched behind them.”

[Homer’s Iliad, Book 18, Lines 516-519, Vail’s translation]

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s