[The Death of Achilles] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Death of Achilles]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Troy; Asia Minor
Description: This image appears at the beginning of the thirteenth book. It depicts the hero Achilles lying dead in a burning funeral pyre after just having been slain by Paris. His limbs are visible beneath the wooden logs. A goddess of an unidentified name is depicted flying over the burning Achilles. The armour of Achilles is resting just outside of the fire as it will go to Ulysses.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25120
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_25120_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Mythology; Achilles; Trojan War