wrote a commentary on the Shield of Heracles in the 1st century CE.

The shield's description

The poem takes its cue from the extended description of the shield of Achilles in Iliad xviii, from which it borrows directly, with a single word altered:

The Iliad gives just enough detail for its hearers to marvel at Hephaestus' workmanship. The Shield of Heracles makes heavier use of description:

:They were bringing the brides through the streets from

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