Achilles is nearly ready now: How Homer Became Great Art – The Iliad

When:
June 1, 2016 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2016-06-01T10:45:00+01:00
2016-06-01T12:45:00+01:00
Where:
The Course at the University Women's Club
2 S Audley St
Mayfair, London W1K 1HF
UK
Cost:
£49.
Contact:
The Course
020 7266 7815

Hector strips Achilles’s armour off Patroclus. Ajax and Menelaus deny him the body. Achilles’s immortal horses grieve for Patroclus. Now Achilles himself is told of his beloved friend’s death. He is sorrowful that there is such a thing as human anger. He mourns over the recovered body. Thetis asks Hephaestus to make Achilles fresh armour.

In this series on Homer’s Iliad, we will explore how artists have interpreted this extraordinary poem; its charmed life in the midst of battle and a god’s eye view of the action, the city, the plain, the fields and mountains. The Greek ships at anchor, and the cast of thousands in the legendary city of Troy.