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Achilles, son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia, hero of the Trojan War, greatest of all the Greek warriors and the central character of Homer's Iliad. Image of a young man in a helmet with crest from a coin with a horse on the reverse. Achille. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.
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