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The Quick and the Dead
2015
Overview
As inThe Iliad, in the mid-twelfth-century Old Frenchroman antique, Le Roman de Troie, Achilles kills Hector in combat and afterward denies Hector’s body the traditional funeral rites. Hector’s father, King Priam, negotiates with Achilles to return the body, which is then carefully embalmed, richly dressed, and paraded through Troy on a litter.¹ Three gifted artificers (engeigneor) design and build a mausoleum, “rich, and strange, and marvelous,” in the shape of a tabernacle. The structure is an elaborate version of what could be found in a medieval church: an altar supported by columns, covered with a carved canopy (baldaquin),
