Achilles and 588 Achilles Asteroid - Versailles, France - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

This 1695 marble sculpture is entitled "Achille a Scyros" or "Achilles at Scyros". It depicts the hero as a young man in flowing robes about to draw his sword. The figure wears a feathered helmet.
Wikipedia has an extensive article about Achilles and the many versions of his legend at (visit link)
Scyros is a Greek island...the site of Theseus' death and Achilles son, Neoptolemus, is said to have come from the island. Read more about it at (visit link)
The artist is Philibert Vigier (1636-1719).

As for the 588 Achilles asteroid, Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:
"588 Achilles is an asteroid discovered on February 22, 1906, by the German astronomer Max Wolf. It was the first of the trojan asteroids to be discovered, and is named after Achilles, the fictional hero from the Iliad. It orbits in the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system. After a few such asteroids were discovered, the rule was established that the L4 point was the "Greek camp", while the L5 point was the "Trojan camp", though not before each camp had acquired a "spy" (624 Hektor in the Greek camp and 617 Patroclus in the Trojan camp)."

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