The same touchy sense of personal honor that is at the root of Achilles' wrath still governs relations between man and man in modern Greece; Greek society still fosters in the individual a fierce sens...
Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.
Who was he if not destined for fame?
Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?" "I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "I...
That is — your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.
Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.
When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.
Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.
Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.
We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then th...
He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.
- 'I've never had a thing for homicidal charmers before.'- 'But now you do?'- 'Apparently.' -I muttered, knowing he could feel my raicing heartbeat under his chest.- 'Well, if it helps, I've never had...
He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.
The Triumph Of AchillesIn the story of Patroclusno one survives, not even Achilleswho was nearly a god.Patroclus resembled him; they worethe same armor.Always in these friendshipsone serves the other,...
Because you made me feel, Flick. Everyone is so predictable, but you? You showed up and rocked my world.
For Achilles, the death of Patroclus pushed him into a fury, but it was not only grief that drove him. It was also a sense of shame and guilt because he had not been there to protect his friend. Somet...
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better th...
I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S."Go," she says. "...
