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In book 23, the sad spirit of dead Patroclus visits Achilles just as he drifts off into slumber, requesting that his bones be placed with those of Achilles in his golden vase, a gift of his mother. Ajax carries off the body of Achilles, Attic black-figure lekythos from Sicily, c. 510 BC ( Staatliche Antikensammlungen , Munich).
Having lost his will to live, Achilles returns to battle and kills Hector to avenge Patroclus. After he is in turn killed by Paris, his ashes are mixed with Patroclus's, per his request, and are buried. Neoptolemus comes to take Achilles's place and has Briseis killed when she refuses his advances and reveals Achilles and Patroclus's relationship.
Odysseus is weeping at the court of Alcinous as the blind minstrel Demodocus sings about Odysseus and Achilles at Troy while playing the harp.. In the Odyssey by Homer, Demodocus (/ d ɪ ˈ m ɒ d ə k ə s /; Ancient Greek: Δημόδοκος, romanized: Dēmódokos) is a poet who often visits the court of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians on the island of Scherie.
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
In Iliad 22, Achilles is seeking to avenge the death of Patroclus by killing Hector, Patroclus' killer. [3] After being distracted by Apollo, Achilles: spoke, and stalked away against the city, with high thoughts in mind, and in tearing speed, like a racehorse with his chariot who runs lightly as he pulls the chariot over the flat land.
Based upon three references to the poem in the Silvae, the Achilleid seems to have been composed between 94 and 96 CE. [1] At Silvae 4. 7. 21–24, Statius complains that he lacks the motivation to make progress upon his "Achilles" without the company of his friend C. Vibius Maximus who was travelling in Dalmatia (and to whom poem is addressed). [2]
In the 1999 opener, Vinny Testaverde, then 35, ruptured his Achilles tendon and didn’t play the rest of that season. Testaverde eventually recovered, and he helped the Jets to multiple playoff ...
The chorus was thus a group of Nereids, and the subject of the play involved Achilles and his Nereid mother Thetis, probably her mourning his imminent death and the acquisition of his new arms. In the Phrygians ( Φρύγες , Phrýges ) or Ransom of Hector (Ἕκτορος λύτρα, Héktoros lútra ), Priam and a chorus of Phrygians sought ...