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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8146739, member: 115909&quot;]Oh yeah and Homer gives a detailed description of the imagery which decorates the new shield. Starting from the shield&#039;s centre and moving outward, circle layer by circle layer, the shield is laid out as follows:</p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>The Earth, sky and sea, the sun, the moon and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Constellation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Constellation" rel="nofollow">constellations</a> (484–89)</li> <li>&quot;Two beautiful cities full of people&quot;: in one a wedding and a law case are taking place (490–508); the other city is besieged by one feuding army and the shield shows an ambush and a battle (509–40).</li> <li>A field being ploughed for the third time (541–49).</li> <li>A king&#039;s estate where the harvest is being reaped (550–60).</li> <li>A vineyard with grape pickers (561–72).</li> <li>A &quot;herd of straight-horned cattle&quot;; the lead bull has been attacked by a pair of savage lions which the herdsmen and their dogs are trying to beat off (573–86).</li> <li>A picture of a sheep farm (587–89).</li> <li>A dancing-floor where young men and women are dancing (590–606).</li> <li>The great stream of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Oceanus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Oceanus" rel="nofollow">Ocean</a> (607–609).</li> <li><br /> [ATTACH=full]1420927[/ATTACH]</li> <li>In the poem, Achilles lends <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Patroclus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Patroclus" rel="nofollow">Patroclus</a> his armor in order to lead the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Achaeans_(Homer)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Achaeans_(Homer)" rel="nofollow">Achaean</a> army into battle. Ultimately, Patroclus is killed in battle by Hector, and Achilles&#039; armor is stripped from his body and taken by Hector as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/War_looting" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/War_looting" rel="nofollow">spoils</a>. The loss of his companion prompts Achilles to return to battle, so his mother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Thetis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Thetis" rel="nofollow">Thetis</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Nymph" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Nymph" rel="nofollow">nymph</a>, asks the god <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Hephaestus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Hephaestus" rel="nofollow">Hephaestus</a> to provide replacement armor for her son. He obliges, and forges a shield with spectacular decorative imagery.</li> </ol><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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