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OGCMA s.v. "Achilles, Wrath of"

ManOWar, "Achilles: agony and ecstasy in eight parts," heavy metal program music on the album The Triumph of Steel (Atlantic Records 1992).

Tracks on the album:
Prelude
Hector Storms the Wall
The Death of Patroclus
Funeral March
Armor of the Gods
Hector's Final Hour
Death: Hector's Reward
The Desceration of Hector's Body
The Glory of Achilles

Manowar's "The Triumph of Steel" album cover featuring a muscular warrior with a sword and hammer against a fiery sky

From the lyrics:
"Your funeral pyre high off the ground / Hector's body dragged three time around / I will carry the torch to your funeral pyre / I will ask of the wind to send high the fire / Hector's blood will not be washed from my body / until your body is burned / a prophecy spoken a promise fulfilled / More blood will be spilled, more will be killed."

Cf. Symphony X, "Odyssey""

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University and other contexts.
This resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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