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ACHILLES SCULPTURAL BUST 17" HIGH
ITEM NUMBER: TEZHG1
SIZE: 17" HIGH
FEATURED FINISH: BRONZE PATINA
MEDIUM: BONDED STONE
SCULPTOR: ELEGANZA
SAFE FOR OUTDOOR USE?: F
SHIPPING AND HANDLING FEE: $18.00
TIME TO SHIP: MADE TO ORDER, SHIPS IN 2-3 WEEKS
PRICE: $ 266.00
Achilles was the bravest of all Greeks as told in the stories of the Trojan Wars.Mythology portrays Achilles as powerful, cruel and arrogant, given to violent outbursts of temper.Nevertheless, to many he was a symbol of youth and bravery who was doomed to an early but glorious death, a hero of epic dimensions. Achilles and the Trojan WarsIt was he who in pursuing the retreating Trojans led the Greeks to the walls of the city and met fair Hector, son of King Priam, in hand to hand combat. Three times he pursued Hector around the walls and then felled him with a single thrust of his spear. His wrath was great. It was Hector who had killed Patroclus, Achilles' dearest friend. To further avenge Patroclus he attached the body of Hector to a chariot and dragged the body three times around the walls of Troy. Achilles was thought to be invulnerable because his mother, the sea nymph Thetis, had dipped him as a tiny infant in the water of the River Styx. Since he had been held by the heel when his mother dipped him in the protective waters he proved vulnerable in that one spot. The god Apollo knew of his vulnerability and avenged the death of Hector by directing an arrow to his vulnerable heel. Elizabeth, the beautiful empress of Austria, built a palatial villa on the island of Corfu; she called it "The Achillion." Of all heroes it was he whom Alexander the Great most admired.
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