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First UK edition (publ. Faber & Faber)

The Shield of Achilles is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952, and the title work of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955. It is Auden's response to the detailed description, or ekphrasis, of the shield borne by the hero Achilles in Homer's epic poem the Iliad.

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Shield of Achilles

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The shield of Achilles is the shield that Achilles uses in his fight with Hector, famously described in a passage in Book 18, lines 478–608 of Homer's...

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The Shield of Achilles

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The Shield of Achilles is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952, and the title work of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955. It is...

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Achilles

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mythology, Achilles (/əˈkɪliːz/ ə-KIL-eez) or Achilleus (Greek: Ἀχιλλεύς, translit. Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest...

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Philip Bobbitt

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Theory of the Constitution (1982), The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (2002), and Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first...

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Shield of Aeneas

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similarities and contrasts to Achilles' shield as described in book 18 of the Iliad. Achilles' shield similarly depicts a set of sweeping images in concentric...

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Flat Earth

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and Apollonius Rhodius. Homer's description of the disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles with the encircling ocean is repeated far later in Quintus...

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Ekphrasis

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descriptions of the two shields are easily discernible; the shield of Achilles depicts many subjects, whereas the shield made for Aeneas depicts the future that Rome...

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The Song of Achilles

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The Song of Achilles is a 2011 novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is a retelling of the Trojan War as told from...

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Aoidos

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the Shield of Achilles): a child sings and plays the lyre to accompany the vintage. The song is the linos Iliad 18.593–606 (on the Shield of Achilles):...

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Hysminai

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daughter of the primordial deities Aether and Gaia. Quintus Smyrnaeus depicted the Hysminae along with other daemons of war on the shield of Achilles. Androktasiai...

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Keres

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into the battle and the tumult. A parallel, and equally unusual personification of "the baleful Ker" is in Homer's depiction of the Shield of Achilles (Iliad...

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Hephaestus in popular culture

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"The Shield of Achilles" Hephaestus participates in a story science fiction duology Ilium/Olympos by Dan Simmons. Hephaestus appears briefly in the Clash...

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Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus

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Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It illustrates the story of the Shield of Achilles, from the Iliad, Book...

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Enyo

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and Deimos ("Dread"), the latter two being sons of Ares. She, Eris, and the two sons of Ares are depicted on the shield of Achilles. Grimal, s.v. Enyo;...

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Thetis

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concerned the marriage of Thetis and Peleus. WH Auden's poem The Shield of Achilles imagines Thetis's witnessing of the forging of Achilles's shield. In 1939...

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Shield of Heracles

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commentary on the Shield of Heracles in the 1st century CE. The poem takes its cue from the extended description of the shield of Achilles in Iliad xviii...

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Triskelion

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example is found on the shield of Achilles in an Attic hydria of the late 6th century BCE. It is found on coinage in Lycia, and on staters of Pamphylia (at...

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Horae Canonicae

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published as a unity in Auden's The Shield of Achilles (1955). Diurnal offices Curtis, Jan (1997). "W. H. Auden's Theology of History in Horae Canonicae:...

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The Silence of the Girls

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Briseis. The plot begins when Greeks led by Achilles sack Lyrnessus, describing the looting and burning of the city, the massacre of its men and the abduction...

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Cavorite

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plot device that turned the reader's attention to "human questions" as soon as possible, comparing it to the shield of Achilles. It notes that while critics...

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Minotaur

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describing the shield of Achilles, remarked that Daedalus had constructed a ceremonial dancing ground for Ariadne, but does not associate this with the term...

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Daedalus

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that which Hephaestus placed on the Shield of Achilles. It is clear that this Daedalus was not an original character of Homer's. Rather, Homer was referencing...

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Linus of Thrace

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Hephaestus, among the other scenes he worked upon the shield of Achilles, represented a boy harpist singing the Linus song: "In the midst of them a boy on...

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Ivy Club

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scholar and author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History Lauren Bush-Lauren (2006) – fashion model and niece of George W. Bush...

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Commoner

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(2003). The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History. Penguin. pp. 80, 108, 486. ISBN 978-0-14-100755-7. Polanyi, Karl (2002). The Great...

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Agallis

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Gallus. Cullhed, Eric (2013). "Homer on the Origins of Athens: Agallis of Corcyra and the Shield of Achilles". Symbolae Osloenses. 87: 64. Pomeroy, Sarah...

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Iliad

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fashions a new set of armor for Achilles, including a magnificently wrought shield. (19) In the morning, Thetis brings Achilles his new set of armor, only to...

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