#Achilles and Patroclus

[coconutbunnysblog]

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[cats-and-cacti]

Oh characters doomed from the start we’re really in it now

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[inkeyjay]

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. [...] When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”  🩸

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” 🌻

Two souls, reunited.

(quotes from Madelline Miller's The Song Of Achilles)

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[elianzis]

"I swear it"

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[stars-in-the-storm]

rip Achilles you would've loved hightop sneakers

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[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

I like to think that pre-Oracle Rachel painted scenes from both wars, but she and Percy have no idea until they go back and reflect.

Percy notices, cause Rachel shows him her art, but he just rights it off as weird, even tho something doesn’t feel right.

Like, that’s DEFINITELY a replica Achilles mourning Patroclus. Only it’s two girls, one with flowing hair and a melted face, the other kneeling over her friend, face stricken with grief. He thinks her eyes look familiar. An immortal stands over them. Although they remind more of Ares and less of Thetis.

She has another painting that reminds Percy of a story from the Gigantomachy. Hera cowers under Porphyrion, about to be attacked. Only instead of Zeus and Heracles coming to her aid, it’s a guy with blond hair. His armor and sword is distinctively NOT Greek, but he opts to not comment on it. Rachel did a good job.

There’s more in her little studio, they both dismiss them as dreams. They make Rachel uncomfortable and Percy feels bile rise the more he looks.

He doesn’t realize until months later. It hits him while on the Argo. Him, Jason, Clarisse. THEY were the heroes in those paintings. Jason was the one coming to Hera’s aid. Clarisse was mourning Selina. He was fighting giants.

It all clicked into place, and he tried to remember what else her paintings for-told.

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[thementalhealthisdropping]

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[septemberkisses]

— The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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[waitingforthesunrise]

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[greekmythcomix]

DEATH in the ILIAD: an Infographic

(originally 2014, updated slightly for 2023 - hey it's almost as old as Homer's Trojan War was long!)

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[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal 2x12 - “Tome-wan”

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[athenas-sw0rd]

Agamemnon: I never considered you a rival.

Achilles: I never considered you at all.

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[ialwayseattherude]

One of the unmistakable comparisons between Hannibal and Will and the myth of Achilles and Patroclus. Achilles was arrogant and harsh towards others, but only towards Patroclus was he warm. Will was curt and perfunctory to all of his acquaintances except Hannibal. Will, the lovesick erastes. Hannibal, the devoted eromenos.

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[hankcrocodile]

very normal heterosexual webweave on mobile the alt text icon obscures some of the words. sorry. don't use mobile ig - car seat headrest / beach life-in-death (twin fantasy, 2018) - Saint Sebastian, school of Nicolas Regnier, circa 17th century - Michel de Montaigne, On Friendship - bob dylan / he was a friend of mine - sufjan stevens / the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us! - Henry Scott Tuke, A Cadet on Newporth Beach, near Falmouth with Another Boy in the Sea - black country, new road / snowglobes - sufjan stevens / mystery of love - Achilles Tending to Patroclus (the Sosias Painter, c. 500 BCE) - sufjan stevens / the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us! - car seat headrest / bodys (twin fantasy, 2018) - sufjan stevens / mystery of love - Henry Scott Tuke, Noonday Heat - vampire weekend / diplomat's son - sufjan stevens / the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us!

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[aristi-achaion]

I’m a classical archaeology grad student, and in class we talked about ancient views of death/handling of the body, which of course made me think about the Iliad and Achilles’ treatment of the dead.

Firstly, funerals were a secular event, and religion was not involved in any funerary rites. But that’s not the main point I want to bring up, it’s this: that touching a dead body was a sort of taboo, and anyone who had handled a dead body needed to be cleansed before they could return to society. Also, burials happened quickly, they needed to get the body in the ground as soon as possible (most likely of for practical reasons of course).

We’re all familiar with how Achilles treats Patroclus’ body after he dies, and while that in and of itself is a good enough point to show what they meant to each other, it takes on another dimension when you take into account the traditions and practices of the time period.

Achilles refusing to bathe himself after touching Patroclus’ body, and the multiple instances of him holding, caressing, and general touching of the body are extreme measures, one of a man that has lost himself in his grief. It could also hint at other things, like Achilles’ own death, because in a sense he had become it. He would not bathe after battle, would not bathe, eat, or drink after touching and holding Patroclus, and prolonged his burial for so long that divine measures that to be taken so his body would not spoil. Achilles disregards tradition, disregards the norms of the Greeks, and as we see once he finally confronts Hector, disregards his own life now that Patroclus is gone.

I think it’s so interesting when you can analyze the actions of the characters in the Iliad against the cultural background of Ancient Greece, because there’s so many subtle things that you’d miss if you weren’t aware, but the audience of the time would’ve caught that added nuance. Anyway! That’s my two cents :)

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[flowersforfrancis]

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”

- Madeline Miller- The Song of Achilles

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