The Death of Achilleus (page 626, with art) – Gantz, Early Greek Myth (1993)

Chapter 16, The Trojan War

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♦ Athens, National Museum: Protocorinthian lekythos with kneeling Paris as archer ? (second from left) and Achilleus ? (in center, facing left) about to be struck in the shin by an arrow

H. L. Lorimer, “The Hoplite Phalanx with Special Reference to the Poems of Archilochus and Tyrtaeus,” Annual of the British School at Athens 42 (1947), p. 93 fig. 7

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♦ Copenhagen, National Museum 14066: Pontic black-figure amphora by Paris Painter, with Achilleus, Hektor and Athena (Side A); and Trojan warrior, Achilleus and Paris aiming an arrow at Achilleus (Side B)

Side A, from L. Hannestad, The Paris Painter: An Etruscan Vase-Painter (1974), pls. 3-4a

Side B, from L. Hannestad, The Paris Painter: An Etruscan Vase-Painter (1974), pls. 4b-5

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♦ Once Hope Collection (now lost): Chalkidian amphora with body of Achilleus, struck by two arrows, in center; over the body, Aias kills Glaukos as the latter attempts to drag body off with a rope; to the left, Athena and to the right, Paris fleeing while Aineias and other Trojans approach; in general view below, on far left, Sthenelos binding up wound of Diomedes

A. Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen (1927) pl. 12 (detail of center)

A. Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen (1927) pl. 12 (whole plate)

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♦ Ruhr Universität S1060: Attic red-figure pelike by Niobid Painter with Paris shooting an arrow at Achilleus while Apollo gestures towards Achilleus; another already-released arrow descends towards Achilleus’ foot

Rendering from L. Steele and L. Alwa, Readings in Classical Mythology, p. 226

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Beazley Archive Pottery Database

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