But in the shield of Achilles, described in book 18 of the Iliad, we see Homer hammer a different tableau. Two cities are depicted on this shield. In one there is happiness, marriage, art and material ...

Published in 1955, the poem draws on a passage of Homer’s Iliad, where the lame blacksmith god Hephaestus, at the request of Thetis, Achilles’ mother, fashions a magnificent shield for the ...

Homer, Iliad, Bk 18, lines 497 – 501 (my translation).You can see this scene on this copy of the shield in the Royal Collection Trust (Click on the image to zoom, and look at the 4 o’clock ...