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She came to Troy not to win the war. She came to die in it...

Her name was Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons. She arrived on the plain of Troy in the weeks after Hector's funeral, when the Trojan cause was already tilting. The city knew it. So did she.

But she had not come because Troy needed saving. She had come because she needed what only war could offer.

Months before her arrival, during a hunt, she had thrown a javelin that went wide. By the account preserved in post-Homeric tradition, the weapon was meant for a deer. It killed her sister Hippolyta instead. The death was an accident. The guilt was absolute.

Under the warrior code she carried, blood guilt of that kind could not be settled in gold or ceremony. It required an answer in blood: either the killing of enemies, or the death of the killer. Penthesilea made her choice. She would go to Troy, fight with everything she had, and let the outcome balance the account.

She arrived with twelve Amazon warriors at her side.

On the battlefield, by the account in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, she fought with a ferocity that shook the Greeks. Some accounts name Ajax among those she bested. The Trojans, who had not felt hope in weeks, lined the walls to watch. For a stretch of that day, she pushed the Greek forces back toward their ships.

That had not happened since Hector was alive.

Then Achilles came onto the field.

He, too, was carrying something. His closest companion Patroclus was dead. He had already killed Hector in vengeance. He was fighting now with nothing left to prove and nothing left to protect.

Two people at the edge of what they could carry met in the middle of the plain.

The accounts differ on the particulars of their duel. They agree on the outcome. Achilles killed her.

When he removed her helmet and looked at the woman he had just fought, something in him broke. Ancient sources describe grief, astonishment, an emotion the chroniclers could not name cleanly. A soldier named Thersites mocked him for it. Achilles killed him for that.

He returned her body. He would not leave her in the field.

She came seeking a warrior's death. She received one. Whether it resolved the guilt she carried is a question the poets left open.

The queen who arrived at war already broken.
The duel that produced a grief no one expected.
The moment when the greatest fighter of his age wept over the woman he had just killed.

Troy produced many stories. Few carry that particular weight.

📷 : A red-figure cup painted in Athens around 460 BC, now in the Antikensammlungen in Munich, depicts the precise moment Achilles kills her. Their eyes are shown meeting at the instant of death. Scholars know the painter primarily from this work, and gave him the conventional name the Penthesilea Painter.

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@Valen10Francois Thanks Napoleon 😉

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@Acyn She has good tastes 😎. Villeneuve is one of the best modern directors.

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@MadKamikazius Fuck you George!
10 years of my life for your lazy ass

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@JamesWHankins1 Sure buddy problem is Stalin memories from US & Brit counterparts tell another story. He wanted a second front desperately. Without it the Germans would have had up to 1 million more troops available. 58 divisions, 1400 tanks.

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@Stephen_UK01 @polidemitolog Because it gives him a clear path out of this mess. We are fighting NATO and it was always NATO fault. It gives him the perfect justification for the war, the peace and the idea that Rus is under inter attack.

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@TheNerdWASuit Aaaand it was just pure perfection!

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@Miyhnea Are you joking? It's the middle of summer season pay now is skyhigh! Impossible

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@EpiriEtAlbaniae Kryt e karit te dalte n'balle ishalla

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@EpiriEtAlbaniae Hajde debil me patente hajde

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@EpiriEtAlbaniae Yes they build it, also they killed all their best generals in the war with the Persians. They killed their best philosophers too. The same guys ranting online today about not accepting Albanians show us that little has changed in the Greek mind for 2500 years.

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@EpiriEtAlbaniae Kto debila online jane nje smundje megalomaniake, tipik shembull inferioriteti. Kane 200 vite shtet dhe asnje shtet ne bote nuk i ndryshon emrin dhe fene emigrantave kur i shfaqen ne dere. Turpi i perendimit jane.

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@EpiriEtAlbaniae Po ama se nje popull i ka dhuruar botes kaq shume nuk nenkupton se kane nje cek te bardhe te na cajne derrasat pafundesisht me ide delirante. A do ti godasesh, goditni ore paaftesine e tyre te pranojne ekzistencen e popujve te tjere te vjeter pavaresisht Greqise

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@JeremiahDJohns Hahahaha Nolan is the true master. All this stupid ranting online just made people more curious. It builds attention. That means money. For the cinematic part no one should doubt his abilities, he is one of the best.

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@nikicaga hahahahahah

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@HunterBiden @march_donna @PatrickByrne hahaha what a brilliant response 😂

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@BrankoMilan Oh so the industrial revolution was made in china too? Or the bourgeoisie started there too? Truth is the industrial revolution was made with the exploitation if white man. Period.
Then people complain about accademia!

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@Bricktop_NAFO Hahahaha 😂