Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Meriones.
The gallery
Warriors Lifting the Body of Patroclus (Etruscan relief)
Unknown (Etruscan), 2nd century BCE
Florence MAN relief of the fight for Patroclus’ corpse: tradition and modern labels place Meriones beside Menelaus among the Greeks who raise the body — Iliad XVII’s Cretan comrade of Idomeneus caught in Etruscan stone.