Book 18:478-608
Cities at peace and war, plowing, marriage, dancing, and the river Ocean encircling all; a universe in miniature.
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From The Iliad by Homer
Hephaestus forges a new shield for Achilles depicting the entire cosmos and human civilization, the archetypal ekphrasis of Western literature.
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