Shield of Achilles
object · 5 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
his shield · the shield · Achilles' shield · Achilles's shield · First Compartment of the Shield · circle of your famous shield · shield-work of golden armor · the great and terrible shield · the work of the shield
spoken of as
1 expressionAchilles' shield2 mentions
Orations (Greek) · Iliad (Greek)
rather, though he provided the god as a craftsman for the work of the shield, he could not contrive to find another material.
in the texts
Iliad
The elaborately decorated shield Hephaistos forges for Achilles, depicting cosmos, cities, and rural life.
He wrought the earth, the heavens, and the sea;
He wrought also two cities, fair to see and busy with the hum of men.
All round the outermost rim of the shield he set the mighty stream of the river Okeanos.
Orations
The famous shield of Achilles forged by Hephaestus in the Iliad.
rather, though he provided the god as a craftsman for the work of the shield, he could not contrive to find another material.
Electra
The elaborately decorated divine shield forged by Hephaestus for Achilles, described in detail by the Chorus.
In the center of the shield the sun’s bright circle was shining on winged horses, and the heavenly chorus of stars, Pleiades, Hyades, bringing defeat to the eyes of Hector;
The Nereids, leaving Euboea’s headlands, brought from Hephaestus’ anvil his shield-work of golden armor, up to Pelion and the glens at the foot of holy Ossa, the Nymphs’ watch-tower.
I heard, from someone who had arrived at the harbor of Nauplia from Ilium, that on the circle of your famous shield, O son of Thetis, were wrought these signs, a terror to the Phrygians:
Ancient Law
Homeric object depicting a trial scene used as a comparative parallel to Roman procedure.
This interpretation would be less plausible than it is, were it not that, by a surprising coincidence, the ceremony described by Gaius as the imperative course of proceeding in a Legis Actio is substantially the same with one of the two subjects which the God Hephæstus is described by Homer as moulding into the First Compartment of the Shield of Achilles.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The shield described by Homer as bearing a depicted judicial scene compared to the Legis Actio Sacramenti.
’ ‘This interpretation,’ I then added, ‘would be less plausible than it is, were it not that, by a surprising coincidence, the ceremony described by Gaius as the imperative course of proceeding in a Legis Actio is substantially the same with one of the two subjects which the God Hephæstus is described by Homer as moulding into the First Compartment of the Shield of Achilles.