person
Achilles
The hero of Homer's Iliad; the war-horns make Rodin 'see the shield of Achilles' (Iliad 18).
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §151 shield of Achilles
In the Iliad (Book 18) Hephaestus forges Achilles a shield engraved with the whole of life; the war-horns call it to Rodin's mind.