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istg the soa fandom will be the fucking death of me
#research of the ctual source material is dead and im the only one at its funeral#i dont know how to tell you this!!! but patroclus wasnt a soft boy!!!! and achilles wasnt a himbo!!!!!#patroclus is a mature and sefless and virtuous warrior!!! when he took achilles armor he killed LOADS of men altogether and im ready to bet#my soul that if apollo didnt intervene he wouldve WON against hector!!! plus madeline erased his prophecy and!!! i hated it!!!!#in soa patroclus died in silence begging for hector not to kill him??????? look i dont know how to tell you but in the iliad oh god.#patroclus death is one of the most emotional and fiilled with pathos scenes IN THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY EVER. bc patroclus dies A HERO and makes#sure that hector KNOWS whats coming at him!! look in greek mythology it was common that. when a hero died he made his killer a prophecy abt#them dying too someday. its a topos idk how else to explain it to u. anyways patroclus was so full of honor and painted as responsible and#wise and older than achilles btw. and no achilles is just an egomaniac asshole that only cared abt patroclus and his own honor. ALSO u cant#just. take it as it is. u have to understand that the iliad is used to study THE VALUES that built the archaic greek society and theyre not#what we know today. patroclus abhorring war is the. most out of place thing u couldve done okay. maybe crying for the innocents but. war#itself really was... nothing special. ppl had wars all of the time. this was just a bigger war against an external enemy distant from homela#homeland. i swear i hated that book viscerally. only reached the end of it for my fav asshole <<33 odysseus <<33 you damn wifetraitor. u my#beloved manipulator who wants to know everything and more. u witty beloathed asshole with thirst for knowledge. fatti non foste a viver come#bruti ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza. i love him <<<3 (also considering him an ACTUAL wife traitor would be decontextualizing and#culturally incorrect. but if u guys arent ready to understand what patroclus was abt u arent ready for this either)#helene rants#helene.txt#the song of achilles#iliad#achilles#patroclus#homer
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