Ajax and Odysseus manage to recover the dead body. Achilles follows them, even passes the gate, but is shot by Paris. Elated by his success, he pursues the Trojans, who flee back into their city. This turns out to be Achilles' last victory. From representations of this scene on vases, we know that there must have been lines in the Aethiopis that describe how the fates of Achilles and Memnon were weighed by Zeus. It does not help him: although he can kill the Greek warrior Antilochus, he is killed by Achilles. Like Achilles, he wears a panoply that has been made by Hephaestus. Achilles is sent to the isle of Lesbos, where he has to sacrifice to Apollo, Artemis, and Leto, and is purified from bloodshed by Odysseus.ĭuring his absence, a new Trojan ally arrives: Memnon, the son of Dawn. There is a dispute among the Greeks, because Thersites was a fellow-Greek and even though he was sharp-tongued, he ought to have been respected. Nevertheless, it was not a clever thing to say: Achilles is really angry, and kills his critic. Achilles kills Penthesileia: a scene from the Aethiopis, shown on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. That there was an element of truth in this accusation, is suggested by many representations, which show Achilles and Penthesileia looking into each other's eyes. While the Trojans bury their ally, the Greeks meet and one of the common soldiers, Thersites, remarks that Achilles has been in love with the Amazon queen. She turns out to be a valiant fighter, but is nevertheless killed by Achilles. Penthesileia arrives, an Amazon queen, and the daughter of the war god Ares. The Aethiopis begins where the Iliad breaks off. The episode of the quarrel between Ajax and Odysseus, which is now at the end of the story, appears to be an addition by an editor who wanted to create a bridge to the Little Iliad. On the moment of his victory and greatest glory, Achilles is killed. He is purified after an error, and quickly overcomes Memnon, the son of Dawn: a demigod. The Aethiopis is the seventh epic of the Epic Cycle it is attributed to Arctinus of Miletus, and is a nice story about Achilles, the perfect warrior. The best-known were Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, which are also the only epics that have survived. Epic Cycle ( ᾽Επικὸς κύκλος): set of twelve archaic epic poems, known to every educated Greek.
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