Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector's Body, Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844, 1868 - 1870, Sculpture, Relief, During the siege of Troy Achilles’ friend Patrocles was killed by Hector, the Trojan king Priam’s son. As revenge Achilles therefore killed Hector. The relief depicts how the old king Priam begs Achilles on his knees to turn over the body of his son. The relief is unique with its rhythm of the three figures on the left that like in a filmic sequence ends in the kneeling figure of Priam

---

Size: 6000px × 3244px
Location:
Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1770-1844, 5, 96, 198, 1868, 1870, achilles, achilles’, begs, bertel, body, carved, cm, depicts, distance, elevated, ends, exists, father, figure, figures, filmic, friend, general, greek, hands, hector, height, hero, humility, killed, king, kneeling, knees, left, level, mentally, mercifulness, patrocles, physically, plea, pleads, priam, priam’, relief, revenge, rhythm, sculpture, sequence, siege, son, themes, thorvaldsen, trojan, troy, turn, unique, width, –