Achilles has warned Patroclus not to pursue the enemy to the walls of Troy, even if things appear to go his ... How could we have got the main meaning of this painting wrong, as art historians did ...
An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.