This paper explores the use of a Greek myth, in particular the episode of Achilles’ sacrifice of the Trojan prisoners at Patroklos’ tomb (Il. 23. 175-176) as depicted on funerary monuments of Apulia and Etruria in the fourth century BC. An iconographic analysis will allow us to conceptualise the meaning of the myth in the funerary ideologies of these cultures.
Keywords:
Patroklos, Achilles, myth, funerary monuments, Apulia, Etruria, reception theory
Riedemann Lorca, V. (2016). Patroklou taphos: mourning, death and violence on pre-roman funerary monuments. Byzantion Nea Hellás, (35), pp. 157–175. Retrieved from https://byzantion.uchile.cl/index.php/RBNH/article/view/44579
