![]() ![]() A corrective was due.īut also it should have been bigger? Patroclus is important to Achilles, but also to the Iliad. Whether you think they were lovers, the intensity of their relationship is central to Achilles’s character and a lot of adaptations have just…ignored that. And on Patroclus’s end the last active thing he does is ask Achilles to embrace him even as he knew it wouldn’t work and he would fade away if he even tried, all because he wanted to be held by him again so badly, especially as he was a little afraid of what came next (something absent from Miller). Like, Achilles was quick to trade his own life for eternal glory, but he realized way too late he would not make that trade for the life of Patroclus. ![]() ![]() Patroclus is absolutely the most important thing in the world to Achilles. ![]()
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