Bust of Achilles

Plaster bust Roman copy of Achilles. This magnificent plaster cast sculpture in the round has been handmade by the Nicholas H Wood studio. Some suggest the sculpture may depict the god of war (Ares), however Ares was rarely represented in art and sculpture.

Achilles, in Greek mythology, son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis. Achilles was the bravest, handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War. According to Homer, Achilles was brought up by his mother at Phthia with his inseparable companion Patroclus. Later non-Homeric tales suggest that Patroclus was Achilles’ kinsman or lover. Another non-Homeric episode relates that Thetis dipped Achilles as a child in the waters of the River Styx, by which means he became invulnerable, except for the part of his heel by which she held him—the proverbial “Achilles’ heel.”

Dimensions: 45cm (height) x 40cm (width) x 29cm (depth).

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