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Achilles' Scream!

Bronze work created by Phidias V century. B.C.

“Achilles' scream” is taken from the eighteenth book of the Iliad (vv. 165-238). Achilles, the bravest of the Greeks and main hero of the Iliad, when he learns from Antilochus the terrible news of the death of his dearest friend Patroclus on the battlefield, desperately screams his pain.