#my old Iliad/ Odyssey copies that i keep since i was 9 year old

[streets-in-paradise]

It's a sincere question, but who is the author of that version you cited with Penthesilea's corpse? I don't remember reading that in the texts

If I remember well, i read it in a mythology handbook called " Mitología Griega" by Editorial Gradifico.

Who is the original source? No idea, often in those sorts of books the explanations go " x and y thing happened, but in some versions, it also happened w". They do have bibliographies, but you can't tell for sure of all the books they cite who came up with each thing because not every " in some versions" has a note underneath clarifiying which versions they are talking about.

@littlesparklight, please help me out if you know the original source for that one. I know I once read that there was a version where Achilles does freaky stuff with the corpse of Penthesilea after killing her, but don't know which ancient author came up with that.

Edit: I haven't been able to check in the book yet, but a google search showed this.

So this isn't an implanted memory of mine.

I didn't remember the context leading to this, and Aphrodite playing a role in sort of driving him crazy, but I knew I read one version where that happened.