✨Achilles and Briseis✨

This stunning mosaic floor is thought to represent the moment when Briseis is taken from Achilles and given to Agamemnon. The conflict that this moment generates sets in motion the horrors covered in Homer's Iliad.

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Achilles is doing it in the Herakles position like the demigod he is in this piece of classical reception 👌

#Briseis and #Achilles, likely by Jacques Joseph Coiny, 1798 CE

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Cunt so good you refuse killing Trojans to get her back 👌

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#Briseis and #Achilles, likely by Jacques Joseph Coiny, 1798