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whitevesper · 1 year

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patroclus: would you still love me after death?

achilles: you think that death can take you out of our relationship?

patroclus:

achilles: ding dong you are wrong

#ancient greek mythology #ancient greek memes #ancient greek #greek myth retellings #greek myth memes #greek mythology #patrochilles #incorrect patrochilles quotes #achilles and patroclus deserved better #patroclus #achilles #achilles and patroclus #and they did #and they die #i would know him in death

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rayzreapurr · 16 days

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Ngl the Trojan war was just one big hate crime (it inconvenienced 2 gay guys)

#song of achilles #trojan war #achilles x patroclus #greek mythology #Achilles and patroclus deserved better #Never getting over this goddamn book

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friendoffrogss · 4 months

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I'm fucking tired of the jegulus Achilles and Patroclus parallels, give me the Icarus and Apollo Parallels! That shit is fire (literally), fly too close to the sun and you'll get burned Reg

#incorrect marauders quotes #maraders era #marauders #jegulus #james x regulus #starchaser #sunseeker #james potter #regulus deserved better #regulus black #icarus and apollo #icarus and the sun #the flight of icarus #patroclus #patrochilles #achilles #equating ships to Greek myth #my favorite pastime

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apoembymiria · 2 years

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i read the song of achilles a year ago but i still could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

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ryoceann · 2 years

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i don't know what's more heartbreaking about tsoa. for patroclus to have to live with the idea of achilles dying or achilles always saying ''what has hector ever done to me?'' only to have the love of his life die at his hand or patroclus dying indirectly because of achilles's actions or achilles having absolutely no time to even slightly get used to the idea of patroclus dying or patroclus being so scared to die at hector's hand not for himself but because he knew achilles wouldn't leave hector alive or how patroclus had to watch achilles go absolutely mad and lose himself to grief and fulfill the prophecy of him dying by killing hector or that achilles was happy to die because he would be reunited with patroclus only to find out he wasn't there or for patroclus to slowly lose hope that he would ever be reunited with achilles because phyrrhus refused to put his name next to achilles. this book is such a tragic. mess.

#WHO SAID IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO READ THIS BOOK ??!??!?!#EVEN KNOWING DIDN'T MAKE IT SLIGHTLY BETTER I AM IN SO MUCH FUCKING PAIN #GOOD GRIEF .#sobs and dies ohmygod they deserved so much better #tsoa #the song of achilles #patroclus x achilles #patrochilles

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teddybearbearteddy · 6 days

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I just finished reading The Song Of Achilles a couple of days ago and IT FREAKING BROKE ME. I can't.

It was messing with my head from the start but i did not expect THAT death of Patroclus. Him being desperate to save his life not for himself but for Achilles....ahhhh😭

#crying hours #my babies deserve better #patroclus #achilles #patrochilles #the song of achilles #books and literature #reading #books

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kindaeccentric · 15 days

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Btw I'm reading Oresteia and I finished Agamemnon, so...

#i think clytemnestra had to kill cassandra or else she would be too sympathetic and nobody would say she was wrong #those warriors ain't shit. even achilles with the whole briseis thing. like ugh. (i also bought my own copy of homer's Iliad)#patroclus deserved better #/hj

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kms-dimple · 9 months

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When Patroclus realized the reason he barely fought anyone was because Achilles was keeping an eye on him all the time and if an enemy even remotely turns in his direction, Achilles ends them immediately.

When Achilles always tells Patroclus to "Stay behind me."

#sobbing #oh my god #my heart hurts #patrochilles deserved better!#they should've been happy!#achilles should've been the first hero who was happy #achilles #patroclus #tsoa #greek tumblr

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asexualdreammorpheus · 2 years

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you'd think the percy jackson trailer would make me excited to watch it but no it just reminded me that actually i hated half of the characters from the book

#i know that annabeth is a popular character but I cannot stand her percy deserves better #he really said annabeth was the most powerful demigod like percy you blew up a volcano nico can command armys of the dead #was she even the most powerful because she is smart? not really everyone demigod in that series is smart #justice for grover though he deserves better #am i going to watch it to see my boy nico? oh yeah absolutely #now that I'm past my im not like other girls phase i can safely say rick did the aphrodite cabin dirty they also deserved better #you know who else deserved better? sally jackson #posideon was still into sally she absolutely should have gotten back together with him and then his wife undersea polycule #i might not watch the series but i will watch the part where sally gets rid of gabe #poseidon really speaks of sally in such a reverent tone he respects her so much and sally gets married and is pregnant again?#absolutely not rick did her dirty sally deserves to have a god in her back pocket #i did hate that some of the demigods got together and the excuse was oh theres no dna so its technically not in*est #come on their 12 and in need of therapy let them not date #the clarisse/silena achilles/patroclus parallels though *chefs kiss*#wow i really got long winded in the tags but you know percy deserves better and so does sally #and percy should unionize the demigods and people should stop being mean to the hades kids #because they are the best and also have the sickest powers hello they can travel through shadows? my anxiety is jealous #i also disliked thalia yet i don't know why #percy nico bianca and thalia should have teamed up and been like see dads it's entirely possible to get on

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sainthony · 2 years

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“His eyes opened ‘Name one hero who was happy’

I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason’s children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus’ back.

‘You can’t.’ He was sitting up now, leaning forward.

‘I can’t.’

‘I know. They never let you be famous and happy.’ He lifted an eyebrow ‘I’ll tell you a secret.’

‘Tell me.’ I loved it when he was like this.

‘I’m going to be the first.’ He took my palm and held it to his. ‘Swear it.’

‘Why me?’

‘Because you’re the reason. Swear it.’“

- Achilles & Patroclus, tsoa

#the song of achilles #tsoa #madeline miller #achilles and patroclus #literature #booklr #quotes #writing #books #tattooed trees #lgbtq #lgbtqa #lgbtq literature #queer #gay #patroclus deserved better #crying over fictional characters #happy pride 🌈#pride 2022

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rhysdoesstuff · 11 months

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🎶Achilles, Achilles, Achilles come down, won’t you get up, get up off the roof🎶

I’ve been going through a Greek Mythology kick again, so I thought I would share my drawing of Achilles, inspired by Song of Achilles and Achilles come down.

#Achilles come down #Song of Achilles #gay #illiad #he deserved better #Achilles #patroclus #Troy #trojan war #helen really went and started this whole thing…#Art #my art

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whitevesper · 1 year

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modern-au patrochilles where achilles is studying mythology and flirts with patroclus using something like “i think i’m icarus bc you are my sun” and patroclus just blushes and doesn’t understand the thing, until briseis explains him >>>>

#tsoa #the song of achilles #tsoa textpost #tsoa patrochilles #tsoa madeline miller #tsoa hedcanon #modern patrochilles #modern-au #patroclus and achilles #patroclus x achilles #achilles x patroclus #achilles and patroclus #achilles and patroclus deserved better #achilles #patroclus #briseis

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i-bring-crack · 2 years

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After finishing the Illiad (and stopping myself from making a sht ton of genealogy trees) I've come back to tell you my favorite patrochilles moments from the book.

-Patroclus sitting next to Achilles as the latter sang with the lyre and the former waiting for him to finish without caring for the others that where standing in the entrance. Bae really said "Ignore everyone, only Aquilles exists here."

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The text about Patroclus: Su compañero... (His Partner)

Me : >:(

The text: ...Amado (His beloved partner)

Me : :)

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-ajsijaksjs Aquilles and Patroclos needed no words to understand each other in Canto[song/book] IX sentence 620.

-Patroclus going to infirmary, cut to a two page long of Nestor saying "They are dying mate because Aquilles ain't doing shit." No a patrochilles thing but it's fucking funny.

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-Yo patroclus described as Man with the face of a god :"""D I wanna see him irl.

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PATROCLUS LAST WORDS WHERE OF AQUILLES LEGIT IM CRYING NO—

Basically Aquilles @ Patroclus saying: fuck it, let them all die so we can have our glory.

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Aquilles entire thing of setting himself some ashes or something hold on let me translate it:

Og(this is not the Greek, rather Spanish because I only managed to buy the copy here in spanish): Así dijo; y negra nube de pesar envolvió a Aquiles. El héroe cogió ceniza con ambas manos, derramóla sobre su cabeza, afeó el gracioso rostro y la negra ceniza manchó la di-vina túnica; después se tendió en el polvo, ocupando un gran espacio, y con las manos se arrancaba los cabellos. Las esclavas que Aquiles y Patroclo habían cautivado salieron afligidas; y, dando agudos gritos, fueron desde la puerta a rodear a Aquiles; todas se golpeaban el pecho y sentían desfallecer sus miembros. Antíloco también se lamentaba, vertía lágrimas y tenía de las manos a Aquiles, cuyo gran corazón deshacíase en suspiros, por el temor de que se cortase la garganta con el hierro. Dio Aquiles un horrendo gemido; oyóle su veneranda madre, que se hallaba en el fondo del mar, junto al padre anciano, y prorrumpió en sollozos;

Trans: So he said; and a dark cloud enveloped Aquilles. The heroe grabbed ashes with both hands and threw them over his head, contorted his gracious face and the dark ash covered his divine tunic; later he covered himself in the dust[the ash], y and with his hands he pulled his hair. The slaves that Aquilles and Patroclus had captivated exited afflicted[they ran in tears at the news basically]; and; with sharp cries; ran from the entrance to gather around Aquilles; all of them hit themselves in the chest and felt their limbs fall. Antilochus[of pylos] also lamented, shed tears and held on to Aquilles with his hands, whose great heart withered into whispers, for the fear that he[Aquilles] would cut his neck with the iron[a blade]. Aquilles shrieked a horrendous cry; whose mother heard from the bottom of the sea, next to his old father and she broke out into tears.

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I can't even with yall, Briseis' entire and only Dialogue was:

Spanish Original: -¡Oh Patroclo, amigo carísimo al corazón de esta desventurada! Vivo te dejé al partir de la tienda, y te encuentro difunto al volver, oh príncipe de hombres. ¡Cómo me persigue una desgracia tras otra! Vi al hombre a quien me entregaron mi padre y mi venerable madre, atravesado por el agudo bronce al pie de los muros de la ciudad; y los tres hermanos queridos que una misma madre me diera murieron también. Pero tú, cuando el ligero Aquiles mató a mi esposo y tomó la ciudad del divino Mines, no me dejabas llorar, diciendo que lograrías que yo fuera la mujer legítima del divino Aquiles, que éste me llevaría en su nave a Ftía y que allí, entre los mirmidones, celebraríamos el banquete nupcial. Y ahora que has muerto no me cansaré de llorar por ti, que siempre has sido afable.

Translated: !Oh Patroclus, dear beloved friend of this Hapless woman! Alive I left you when you parted this tent, and I find you coming back deceased, oh prince of Men !How tragedy falls onto me one after another! I saw the men that my father and venerable mother gave me, pierced by the sharp bronce at the foot of the city's walls; and the three brothers that my same mother gave me dead also. But you, when the swift Aquilles killed my husband and took the city of divine Minos, didn't let me cry, saying that you would do what it takes to make me the legitimate wife of divine Aquilles, that he would bring me in his ship to Ftia and there, alongside mirmidons, we would celebrate in the wedding banquet. Now that you are gone I will never grow tired of crying for you, who was always affable.

CRYING SHAKING SCREAMING I AM NOT EVEN COMMENTING ON HOW MUCH THIS MEANS IN THE GRAND SOCIAL UPSTANDING SCHEME OF THINGS WHERE WOMEN WHERE SEEN AS INFERIOR AND HOW MUCH IT COULD HAVE POSSIBLY MEANT FOR YOUR ENEMY TO SHOW COMPASSION OVER YOUR SITUATION IN A WAR IN THIS ESSAY I WILL— *starts sobbing alongside other of Homer works*

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Anyways let's talk of Achilles holding on to Patroclus's corpse in his tent until his spectrum asked "Yo let me die in peace" and even when Aquilles gave to Priam the body of Hector he apologized to Patrcoclus.

Bonus of Patrchilles in the afterlife after Odysseus went to see them, Aquilles was close to Patroclus the entire time and just asked :Did my son go to war? and Odysseus said ye and then went back to the Elysium caves with Patroclus haha.

#patrochilles #illiad #patroclus #Aquilles #briseis #WHO DESERVED BETTER #Yo Hector #love you but HOW FUCKING DARE YOU DO ALL OF THAT TO MY PATROCLUS BODY AHHHHHH #THE ENTIRE ILLIAD DOESNT DESERVE PATROCLUS AND THATS FINAL #THIS MAN HAD MORE BEAUTY THAN APHRODITE MORE BRAVERY THAN ARES AND FAR FAAAR MORE FUCKING SENSE OF RESPECT THAN ZEUS EVER DID IN HIS ENTIRE #FUCKING LIFE THATS THE REASON WHY MA BOI COULD NEVER HAVE LIVED PASSED THIS DONT YOU THINK I DONT SEE YOU FREAKING GODS #YOU KILLED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ONLY THE SANITY OF ACHILLES BUT BECAUSE HE WAS THE LAST HOPE OF TROY ITSELF DESPITE BEING THE ENEMY #THAT IS HOW MUCH HE FREAKING MATTERED YOU ASSH AHHHH #im #im very sad #and f it all of them are at fault really #Aquilles too he was prob the catalist of it #kinda of everything also #youknow #but Patroclus rrally freaking touched me alonside Odysseus and maybe a tinsy bit with Hector and Andromene..andromeda? Androsomething—#Thing here is that the love story isnt what got me but rather just the tiny shred of hope that the heroes where still people and understood #that the enemy was also a person #thats why the Briseis line killed me #and Priam too!!!#they helf character #they felt something they felt human and they felt the pain of what WAR meant what the WAR had done to them and how they manage to hold on #to the last shred of peace kindness and heart even to the mearest of slaves #PATROCLUS I LOVE YOUUUU #;-;;#song of achilles

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calliopeandchaos · 2 years

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Aristos Achaion.

A soldier, a demigod, blessed.

But he was also a man.

A man who, despite how loved he was

was never satisfied with it alone.

I suppose there's a comfort in holding the power of the world in your hands.

But fate is never yours to control.

Tell me, Achilles, was it worth it in the end

to never be worth your legacy.

To lose all you loved for the fame you never wanted?

Who will rule when you fall?

#tsoa patrochilles #greek mythology #poetry #the song of achilles #achillesandpatroclus #Patroclus deserved better

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jaybren · 2 years

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Me going back in time like:

Odysseus: we all agree to fight to defend the marriage to the guy of Helen's choice

Everybody: yeah, sure...I guess if we have to

Me: AND HER RIGHT TO KILL HIM IF SHE WANTS!

Odysseus: ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)

Everybody: ... (☉_☉) (☉_☉) (☉_☉) ...

The Gods: *already planning Troy* (ﾉ °益°)ﾉ彡 ┻━┻

Helen: ( •̀ᴗ•́ )و ̑̑

#yes I am a little shit #the entire plan started as a way to save Patroclus and Achilles #but then I thought about Helen #she deserved better #Penelope deserved better too #I would also throw so much shade at Odysseus about him being a cheating dick head #and being the mastermind behind the reason his crew got punished but he gets to make it home alive?#absolute bullshit #I would throw massive shade on the 'right' answer being Hestia #With second answer being Persephone just to high five Hades and throw a wrench in the Underworld/Olympus machinery #because no way Hades was going to punish someone who said Persephone was the most beautiful goddess #Also I would spread rumors that I wasn't human and the only way to kill me was to get me to fall in love #Then it would be like 'psych' I'm aromantic #no one would be particularly shocked about what I said about the gods #they just would be shocked that I was still standing having aired so much dirty laundry #and with the river styx bonus -- they couldn't stop me either #river styx bonus #now where is my time machine #patrochilles #achilles x patroclus

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wheresmypineapplebro · 2 years

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it is just so frustrating that after it all, Paris is the one who landed the killing blow

#keep your nose out of it Apollo #damn #Achilles deserved better #Achilles #Patroclus #tsoa achilles #The Song of Achilles #achilles and patroclus #paris of troy

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