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Achilles and Patroklos | "This unique scene on Attic red-figured cup must refer to time before the start of the events in the Iliad. It shows a rarely represented episode from the Trojan war. The two figures are identified by inscriptions: Achilles looks after his friend Patroklos, wounded in the left arm by an arrow. Patroklos turns his head away, twisted with pain, while his friend bandages his wound. "  From T.H. Carpenter’s book “Art and Myth in Ancie... Sacred Band Of Thebes, Ancient Greek Vase, Homer Iliad, Greek Vase, Ancient Greek Pottery, Vase Painting, Greek Heroes, Achilles And Patroclus, Greek Pottery

Kylix tondo: Achilles bandages Patroklos' arm. Patroklos, who has been wounded in the upper left arm, sits on his shield, his right knees splayed outward and his left leg extended with his foot braced against the outline of the tondo. The elbow of his injured arm is supported on his left thigh. He holds the bandage with his right hand, and turns his head away from the injury. Achilles stoops at his friend's side, wrapping the bandage around Patroklos' arm with both hands, his full attention…

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