Troilus and Cressida
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The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida, often shortened to Troilus and Cressida, is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1602.
Portrait of a Lady in the Character of Cressida, John Opie (c. 1800)
Print, from a painting by E. J. Poynter, in The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines (1896)
Cassandra, Troilus and Cressida, Edwin Austin Abbey (c. 1908)
Diomed and Cressida (from William Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida', Act V, scene ii), Angelika Kauffmann (1789)
Patroclus
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Patroclus was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and close companion of the hero Achilles in Greek mythology. Patroclus is an important character in Homer's Iliad. Although Homer does not describe Patrocl
Troilus and Cressida
…Thersites, a deformed and scurrilous low-class "fool" Patroclus, lover of Achilles…
Patroclus on an antique fresco from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii, 1st century AD (Naples National Archaeological Museum)
A fresco in Pompeii depicting Achilles seated between Briseis and Patroclus in the marquee
A cup depicting Achilles bandaging Patroclus's arm, by the Sosias Painter
Menelaus and Meriones lift the body of Patroclus while Odysseus and others look on (Etruscan relief, 2nd century BC)