14 Works found in Achilles (Homer)

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    "The great Achilles, best of the Achaeans, undone by sand in his armor."

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    "For I have lost my all." Prompt: "The Iliad, Achilles/Patroclus, Achilles knows he is dead, and there is no anointment of ambrosia that can preserve his limbs or keep out the rot, but he cannot leave his side.”

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    Even without the promise of glory, love would have been enough to bring Achilles to Ilium.

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    They will know him by his deaths.

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    Hephaistion retells to Alexander the story of Achilles and Patroklos in a desperate attempt to avoid their fate.

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    "...but as for fate, I think that no man yet has escaped it/once it has taken its first form, neither brave man nor coward."

    Hector to Andromache, Homer, The Iliad, book 6, 488-9; trans. Richmond Lattimore

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    Patroclus knows there is a reckoning coming, probably sooner rather than later, but for now, he chooses to lose himself in the heat of Achilles' body.

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    The things unsaid between Achilles and Patroclus.

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    If nothing else, Achilles' fit of pique has given them more time, and Patroclus can't help but be grateful for that.

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    A study of a linear progression in seasons.

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    "even when Patroclus is lying stiff and unseeing, Achilles still wants to touch him"

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    "We will never see Phthia again."

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    "He is golden and lithe, wiry and graceful, an absolute terror with the grace of a god."

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