…he gnashed his teeth, his eyes gleamed like fire,įor his grief was greater than he could bear. She went back to the house of her mighty father. So that no cruel hunger should cause his limbs to fail him, “…when Athena had dropped nectar and ambrosia into Achilles “…the goddess set down the arms in front of Achilles,Īnd they all rang aloud in their splendour.Īnd his eyes blazed forth in terrible wiseįrom beneath their lids, as it had been flame Īnd he was glad as he held in his arms the glorious gifts of the god.” Thetis Bringing Armor to Achilles by Benjamin West, 1806. Shining beams of sanctified light shoot forth from his head like Athena from the forehead of Zeus.Įxploding with uncontrolable emotions, the supernatural light streams unabated from Achilles’ head even as his goddess mother, Thetis enters with a full set of new armor fresh from the forge of Hephaistos. Fountainheads from within both angry eyes shoot forth beams fueled by the uncontainable energy of Achilles’ explosive wrath. The quaking volcano within Achilles finally erupts. Lost to the heat of battle, laid low at the hand of Hektor, slain of life and stripped of armor, his beloved is lost to the ravages of war. In unrestrainable grief, Achilles mourns for his beloved Patroklos, trusted chariot driver, brother in arms, his friend with whom he shares everything, especially his heart. If so be they may come in their ships to be warders off of bane Įven so from the head of Achilles went up the gleam toward heaven.” In hateful war from their city’s walls, and then at set of sunįlame forth the beacon-fires one after anotherĪnd high aloft darteth the glare thereof for dwellers round about to behold, “…Round about his mighty shoulders Athene flung her tasselled aegis,Īnd around his head the fair goddess set thick a golden cloud,Īnd forth from the man made blaze a gleaming fire.Īnd as when a smoke goeth up from a city and reacheth to heaven from afar,įrom an island that foes beleaguer, and the men thereof contend the whole day through The voices of the Muses strain to the point of breaking as their song empowers Achilles with supernatural radiance. Life and death, revenge and hate, righteousness and evil, glory and fate. It all comes together when Achilles’ head bursts into flames.
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