DescriptionAchilles' Sacrifice of Trojan Prisoners.jpg
English: Fresco from Francois Tomb, in the Etruscan city of Vulci, Italy
Reading this from left to right:
Agamemnon, King of the Mycenaeans and brother-in-law of Helen, who was murdered after his return from Troy;
the ghost of Patroclus, beloved comrade and friend of Achilles, who was killed in battle by Hector of Troy;
the winged Etruscan female angel of death, Vanth, whose wings embrace Patroclus and Achilles;
Achilles, who is leaning forward to behead the Trojan slave at his feet, but was killed before the fall of Troy when Paris shot an arrow into his vulnerable heel;
the Etruscan death demon, Charun, armed with his hammer;
Telemonian Ajax, who dies by falling on his own sword at the end of the Trojan War;
a Trojan slave waiting to be killed;
Locrian Ajax, who drowns returning from Troy, and is holding another Trojan slave off the right edge of this image.
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Agamemnon, Patroclus, Vanth, Achilles, Charun, Ajax the Great, Trojan slaves, Ajax the Lesser