Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Simois.
The gallery
Achilles Fighting the River Gods Xanthus and Simois
Auguste Couder, 1819
Couder's Louvre decoration names both Trojan rivers — Simois beside Scamander (Xanthus) rising against Achilles in Iliad XXI.
Achilles Fighting Scamander and Simois
Unknown, c. 17th–18th century
Rijksmuseum print: Achilles locked with both river-gods — Simois as Scamander's partner in the flood that almost drowns the hero.
Achilles in Combat with Scamander and Simois
Unknown, c. 17th–18th century
Another Rijksmuseum plate of the double river battle — Simois named in the title as Troy's second watery foe.
The Simoeis Plain
Edward Daniel Clarke, 1824
Clarke's travel view of the Simoeis plain in the Troad — the mortal landscape of the river-god who fought beside Scamander.