Priam arrives at Achilles’ shelter to ransom the body of his son Hector. The youth facing him has b
Priam arrives at Achilles’ shelter to ransom the body of his son Hector. The youth facing him has been variously identified as an attendant or the disguised Hermes. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, attributed to the Briseis Painter; ca. 480 BCE. Thought to have been found at Vulci; now in the British Museum. -- source link
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