#Song of Achilles

[meboii27]

“There’s no me without you”

[all-this-panic-still-no-disco]

so madeline miller based her patroclus off the troilus and cressida rendition and one line specifically, something like ‘war makes him sick to think of’ but patroclus in the iliad is actually a fucking goat. he’s fast, a good healer, noticeably older that achilles (older men had beards and in most art renditions patroclus was bearded) and was literally so good in achilles’s armor that the gods had to prevent him from taking troy. HE WOULD HAVE TAKEN TROY. Homer’s Patroclus was the guy that cried to Achilles about all the men dying and then proceeded to whoop ass about it. icon. he also made achilles promise to marry briseis, which is actually really nice because it means briseis would have a real place of power and security rather than being a slave for life.

[elianzis]

"I swear it"

[ufotomars]

"In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun." — Madeline Miller

He is half of my soul, as the poets say.

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[cityelf]

Left is MY FIC, right is the ACTUAL BOOK QUOTE IT WAS INSPIRED BY

(Mask context: masquerade ball / cinderella au)

It has been doing numbers EVERYWHERE and I only found out from this lovely person who commented on Ao3:

So yeah I guess if anyone wants to read an 8 year old Song of Achilles fanfic written in a fever dream after watching Into The Woods, be my guest

[weirdgirlvampire]

Oh characters doomed from the start we’re really in it now

[za-ra-h]

The Song of Achilles

[chaosongreekcampground]

Diomedes: Odysseus and I are having a baby.

Achilles: That’s grea-

Odysseus: *slams adoption papers on the table* it’s you, sign here!

[thebestbrunettee]

i have no clue who made this art but can i just say this made me sob.

i can’t deal with this anymore… my heart can’t take it.

[tenoart]

Hector of troy- because most art I see of him is in armour or scary and that needed fixed

[thementalhealthisdropping]

[septemberkisses]

— The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

[svngof-inks]

I will recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and deaf. I will recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times and I will love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.

— Achilles

[shedeservesthebest]

The horror in me when Briseis calls Patroclus “Best of men. The best of the Myrmidons.” Which essentially doomed him to the prophecy.

“The best of the Myrmidons will die before two more years have passed.”

Could have been any one of them (except Achilles) until Briseis named Patroclus the best, which sealed his fate

[obvhouse]

impending