Athena, helmeted behind Achilles, takes his hair to restrain his drawn-sword confrontation with Agamemnon. Flaxman’s spare outline treatment makes the goddess’s role as a check on heroic anger unusually clear.
Source citation: John Flaxman, II English, 1755-1826. Minerva and Achilles. Undated (museum: n.d.). The Art Institute of Chicago. 1919.2134. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/77237
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