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Me: *casually watching my fav Youtube chennels video on The Best Couples in History*
Video: *starts with Achilles and Patroclus*
Me: Oooohhh yayyy. I love them. They better not mention that cursed book
Video: Historians and classicists alike have done a poor job at representing these two.
Me: Yes, very true.
Also Video: For better representation, go read The Song of Achilles-
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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I have already written about Achilles' waiting, but what about Patroclus' willpower?
He continued to meet Achilles even though he knew he was the prince and he was an exile. He continued to stand by Achilles despite Thetis' threats. He ran after Achilles when he went with Chiron to train, determined not to stop running until he caught up with them. He begged Peleus to reveal Achilles' location and then sailed to Skyros to meet him. He followed him and the rest of the Myrmidons to the Trojan War. He followed him onto the battlefield and through the years there. He continued to wait for him every day in his tent to see him return from battle. He stood by his side after the conflict with Agamemnon. He stood by his side until he saw how Achilles was consumed by his self-centredness. Only then did he abandon him and beg him to fight for them again, as Patroclus had done since he met him.
Although he is not the "fighting" part (apparently), since that is what Achilles is supposed to be, Patroclus fights in another way. He never has things easy, unlike Achilles who is loved, respected and accepted by everyone; Patroclus has to fight against everything and everyone to be by the side of the one he loves. Patroclus is the tireless willpower that moves the soul to fight for what it believes in or loves. Likewise, Patroclus represents the part of the soul that is always searching for its other half.
That is why Patroclus, as he claimed, followed Achilles until after his death.
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elianzis · 10 months
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"I swear it"
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LOSING IT 😭😭
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4rthurfox · 19 days
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petition for TZP to play Patroclus pls and thank u
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vienaisme · 9 months
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Do you ever think about how Chiron never saw Patroclus and Achilles again? Sure he heard the tales of the Rage of Achilles and Patroclus' Sacrafice. Sure, he did his job, he trained them to be heroes and so they died as such. But to him they will always be boys made for music and medicine. He will stay timeless and their names will stay timeless and everything will be as the Fates intended and he will continue to live on Pelion awaiting the next hero to send to their doom, and he will never seen Achilles and Patroclus again. He trains and raises heroes and he'll train and raise more and then they'll leave and leave him and his life will continue. He does not wait, he has done this song and dance too many times to be that foolish, but he does wish, as he lives on Mount Pelion with the ghosts of boys yet known to the world, boys who only embraced music and medicine.
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alessiajontrunfio · 2 years
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"My pulse jumps, for no reason I can name. He has looked at me a thousand thousand times, but there is something different in this gaze, an intensity I do not know. " [The song of Achilles- Madeline Miller]
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athenas-sw0rd · 9 months
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Agamemnon: I never considered you a rival.
Achilles: I never considered you at all.
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katkit-drops-alt · 5 days
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aaaaaaaaaaaa the iliad/odyssey as cat memes aaaaaaaaaaaaa
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anminpillow · 11 months
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So I just finished reading The Song of Achilles, and forgive me if I'm stating the obvious but . . .
About two thirds of the way in, Thetis tells the boys that there is a new prophecy, that "the best of Myrmidons will die before two more years have passed." And at first they're afraid that it's Achilles, but then Thetis tells them that he will be alive when it happens
The first time I read this, I didn't understand. It was only when I read that passage again, after knowing what happens, that I realized the prophecy was about Patroclus
The book even acknowledges it later on, when Briseis is saying goodbye to him . . . "'Best of men. Best of Myrmidons.' She places her fingers to my lips, stopping my objection. 'It is truth,' she says. 'Let it stand for once.'"
In the first half of the book, a lot of Patroclus's pov is dedicated to describing how beautiful and amazing Achilles is. And when you see how ordinary and pathetic Patroclus makes himself look in comparison, you almost start to wonder why Achilles loves him in the first place
But Patroclus was the best of all of them, even better than Achilles. No one else had his kindness, his tenderness, his unwavering care for others
And Achilles knew this. Further on, Briseis says that Patroclus was worth ten of him, and Achilles doesn't disagree
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dark-blue-frankie · 1 year
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If you ever feel stupid with your ideas, remember that someone actually made a movie about the trojan war in which Achilles is straight.
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meditando-en-paris · 1 year
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Odysseus: Do it or you're straight.
Achilles: *Loud gasp*
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elianzis · 10 months
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HALF OF MY SOUL
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Odysseus: What's up with Achilles? He has been laying on the floor for like.. an hour now?
Breises: He's a bit overwhelmed
Odysseus: And why is that?
Breises: Patroclus smiled at him
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gigizetz · 10 months
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Oh, will wonders ever cease?
Blessed be the mystery of love.
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