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English: Fresco from Francois Tomb, in the Etruscan city of Vulci, Italy

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   Agamemnon, King of the Mycenaeans and brother-in-law of Helen, who was murdered after his return from Troy;
   the ghost of Patroclus, beloved comrade and friend of Achilles, who was killed in battle by Hector of Troy;
   the winged Etruscan female angel of death, Vanth, whose wings embrace Patroclus and Achilles;
   Achilles, who is leaning forward to behead the Trojan slave at his feet, but was killed before the fall of Troy when Paris shot an arrow into his vulnerable heel;
   the Etruscan death demon, Charun, armed with his hammer;
   Telemonian Ajax, who dies by falling on his own sword at the end of the Trojan War;
   a Trojan slave waiting to be killed;
   Locrian Ajax, who drowns returning from Troy, and is holding another Trojan slave off the right edge of this image.
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Date 350-330 BC
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Agamemnon, Patroclus, Vanth, Achilles, Charun, Ajax the Great, Trojan slaves, Ajax the Lesser

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