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Homer Il. 22-24
Apollodorus Biblioteca E.5.23
Hyginus Fabulae 106

Peter Paul Rubens, “The Death of Hector,” design for a tapestry series ca. 1630, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, no. 1760d

Baroque painting of two warriors fighting, with mythical figures and cherubs above them.

Rubens painted oil sketches for a tapestry series called “The History of Achilles” which were executed 1640’s–1660’s and are now found in Kassel in the Staatliche Kunstsammlung and in the Palazzo Reale in Torino.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.