
Cy Twombly, ACHILLES MOURNING THE DEATH OF PATROCLUS, 1962

Cy Twombly, ACHILLES MOURNING THE DEATH OF PATROCLUS, 1962
Jacques-Louis David, Andromache Mourning Hector, 1783
In the Iliad, there is no natural death —
everything comes about by intent
… All that violence
out of somebody’s error.
—Susan Stewart, “In the Western World,” in Red Rover (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 79.