Illustration
Achilles holding the Amazon Queen Penthesilea, whom he fell in love with at the moment he killed her during the Trojan War.
Relief from the side of a sarcophagus, c. 180 CE, discovered in Thessaloniki, Greece. Louvre Museum, Paris, France (LP 2584, No usuel Ma 2119).
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