Achilles cries out for vengeance by Peter Connolly

"Patroclus did as his dear comrade had bidden him. He brought Briseis from the tent and gave her over to the heralds, who took her with them to the ships of the Achaeans- and the woman was loth to go. Then Achilles went all alone by the side of the hoar sea, weeping and looking out upon the boundless waste of waters. He raised his hands in prayer to his immortal mother, "Mother," he cried, "you bore me doomed to live but for a little season; surely Jove, who thunders from Olympus, might have made that little glorious. It is not so. Agamemnon, son of Atreus, has done me dishonour, and has robbed me of my prize by force." 

-Homer, The Iliad: Book 1

Achilles cries out for vengeance by Peter Connolly. Thetis in Mycenaean dress.

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http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.1.i.html