Achilleus ΜΗΝΙΣ Sculpture

This assemblage is based on the character Achilles, the hero whose quest for kleos forms the basis of the Iliad. Homer describes Achilles as a swift, temperamental warrior, and the best of the Achaeans. In the Iliad, Achilles’ anger is the catalyst for the events that make up the poem. Unlike Odysseus, Achilles trades his return home (nostos) for a death in battle that will win him poetic immortality. Achilles’ kleos is diminished by Agamemnon’s disrespect and his subsequent refusal to fight, but restored when he avenges the death of Patroclus. ΜΗΝΙΣ (menis) serves here as an epithet of Achilles and refers to anger; wrath, and ire and is also the first word and topic of the Iliad. The sculpture was created from the following: Fishing buoy, spoked wheels, rotary breast-drill gear, Jamboli food press lid and handle, lid and threaded shaft, flame-shaped finial, Jaffle toaster mould plate, various bell and cup shaped lamp holder components, jingle bell, coffee-press plunger shaft, cutting tool handle, anniversary clock base, linoleum tile, wood (Obeche), enamel paint