| | | …such was the rage of young Diomedes as he closed with the Trojans. Next he killed Astynöos and Hypeiron, shepherd of people, striking one with the bronze-heeled spear above the nipple, and cutting the other beside the shoulder through the collar-bone with the great sword, so that neck and back were hewn free of the shoulder. Iliad, 5.144-146 translated by Richmond Lattimore | 48.1.004 | 2007 | acrylic on wood | 17" x 10.5" x 2" | | | | | | | | |