18 Works in Achilles (Homer)

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    Also known as "What happens when a Classics student has WAY too much fun with her degree!"

    Jack and Ianto find themselves in the middle of the Greek camp in the tenth year of the Trojan War. How will they react? Started as a funny story, but somehow got really intense on me!

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    23,027
    Chapters:
    10/13
    Comments:
    3
    Hits:
    167
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    Patroclus, horseman, plays at dice.

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    708
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    4
    Kudos:
    9
    Hits:
    169
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    A walk through Achilles' grief-stricken, deranged mind.

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    1,920
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Kudos:
    5
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    299
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    Tres viae quibus cogitant: si Patroclus viveret.

    (Three ways in which people think: if Patroculus were alive)

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    22
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    2
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    186
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    "The great Achilles, best of the Achaeans, undone by sand in his armor."

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    1,340
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    4
    Kudos:
    32
    Bookmarks:
    1
    Hits:
    692
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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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    913
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Kudos:
    7
    Hits:
    215
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    Even without the promise of glory, love would have been enough to bring Achilles to Ilium.

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    1,142
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    20
    Kudos:
    48
    Bookmarks:
    11
    Hits:
    1091
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    They will know him by his deaths.

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    1,131
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    6
    Kudos:
    13
    Hits:
    331
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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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    4,984
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    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    26
    Bookmarks:
    5
    Hits:
    1192
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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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    3,776
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    18
    Kudos:
    16
    Bookmarks:
    3
    Hits:
    562
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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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    1,331
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Kudos:
    14
    Hits:
    260
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    The things unsaid between Achilles and Patroclus.

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    1,278
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    14
    Bookmarks:
    3
    Hits:
    470
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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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    1,524
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Kudos:
    4
    Hits:
    127
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    A study of a linear progression in seasons.

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    5,730
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    12
    Bookmarks:
    3
    Hits:
    390
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    Words:
    2,229
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Kudos:
    20
    Bookmarks:
    1
    Hits:
    458
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    "even when Patroclus is lying stiff and unseeing, Achilles still wants to touch him"

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    98
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Hits:
    235
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    "We will never see Phthia again."

    Words:
    871
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Kudos:
    11
    Bookmarks:
    1
    Hits:
    180
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    "He is golden and lithe, wiry and graceful, an absolute terror with the grace of a god."

    Words:
    1,106
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    4
    Kudos:
    13
    Bookmarks:
    3
    Hits:
    564

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