Due to a slight he believes he has suffered at the hands of Agamemnon, the Greek leader at Troy, Achilles withdraws from the fight. Patroclus subsequently dons Achilles’s armor and charges out to his ...

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Open: Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa Achilles, frantic for the loss of Patroc... Achilles frantic for the loss of Patroclus, rejecting the consolation of Thetis (1803) is a significant ...

And I’ve always been fascinated that what eventually leads the Greeks to victory against Troy is the death of Patroclus, a man inconsequential to all but Achilles, who calls him “the dearest ...

One of the most powerful passages in The Iliad is in Book 18, when a weeping Greek soldier comes to the tent of Achilles and tells him that his lifelong friend Patroclus has fallen in battle ...

Hector in his turn has slain Achilles’ closest comrade, Patroclus. And, improbably, the two heroes also briefly share a spectacular set of armor. How Hector came to wear it and the consequences ...

Deprived of Achilles’s godlike skill in combat, tens of thousands of Greeks die as the price of his honor, but it is the death of his friend Patroclus that truly arouses Achilles’s rage.

The novel is a fictitious retelling of the classic Greek myth of Achilles and his companion and rumored lover, Patroclus. Miller tells the story of their love through the eyes of Patroclus, spanning ...