#euphorbos

[romegreeceart]

Plate showing Menelaos and Hektor fighting over the body of Euphorbos

* Rhodes, about 600 BCE

* Findspot: Kamiros, Rhodes

* British Museum

London, July 2022

[adriles]

if the bastard trojan that hit patroclus with his spear tried to kill me i would bust his ass and crumple it up like a newspaper

[lionofchaeronea]

Menelaus (left) and Hector fight over the body of the Trojan hero Euphorbus.  Ancient Greek plate in the “Middle Wild Goat” style, artist unknown; ca. 600 BCE.  Found at Camirus, Rhodes; now in the British Museum.