You Always Hurt the One You Love

P1040472From the museum at Afrodisias:Achilles supports the slumping figure of the Amazon queen Penthesilea, whom he has mortally wounded. Her double-headed axe slips from her hand. The queen had come to fight in the Trojan War against the invading Greeks. Between her being wounded and dying in his arms--the time represented here--Achilles fell in love with her.

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