Philip Bobbitt

The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (2003)

Reconstruction of the Shield of Achilles, by Dr. Raffaele D'Amato, and Giuseppe Rava, The Early Aegean Warrior, 5000-1450 BC.Now,when the famous crippled Smith had finished offthat grand array of armor, lifting it in his armshe laid it all at the feet of Achilles' mother Thetis—and down she flash...