THE DEATH of HECTOR

"The Death of Hector" by Troy's Work Table. Deep dreamed by artificial intelligence.

Photo source: "Hector and Andromache," Italian marble, 1871, by Giovanni Maria Benzoni.

Style source, left: Terracotta amphora, circa 540 BC, Greek.

Style source, right: M51 "Whirlpool" Galaxy viewed by Chandra X-ray Observatory Center and Hubble Space Telescope.

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"The breeze shifts and blows towards him across this nine years' battlefield, and he imagines that somewhere behind leather and dung and horses and men long dead in the sun, he can just make out the scent of myrrh from the Scaean rampart."
—page 144, from The Rage of Achilles by Terence Hawkins

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"He falls backward and cannot believe he is still enough alive to hear bronze rattle and feel the shock of body on earth. He tries to move, more from curiosity than desire to be elsewhere. Nothing. The purple mist of which the poets speak is gathering. He did not expect it to roar in his ears. How could mist roar?"
—page 154, from The Rage of Achilles by Terence Hawkins