Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• The Embassy to Achilles
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
• Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
• Fight over Patroclus’s Body; Thetis and the New Armor
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 17–18
• Ransom of Hector: Priam in Achilles’ Tent
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 24
• Patroclus Arms in Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 16 · Homeric — arming and Achilles’ charge isolated from Patroclus’s death
• Priam Clasps Achilles’ Knees (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric — tent recognition, shared weeping, and return of the body
• Automedon and Achilles’ Immortal Horses (*Iliad* 17)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Automedon’s aristeia with Xanthus and Balios after Patroclus falls
• Patroclus Borrows Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia prelude · Homeric — Nestor’s plan; Achilles’ limits; Patroclus arms in the Myrmidon panoply

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp
• Achaean council
• Achaean ditch
• Achaean ships
• Achaean wall
• Achilles’ chariot
• Achilles’ hut among the Myrmidon ships
• Achilles’ hut in the Achaean camp
• Achilles’ shelter by the ships
• Achilles’ shelter in the Achaean camp
• Argos
• Assembly
• Battlefield over Patroclus
• Gates and ditch of the camp
• Lycia
• Myrmidon camp
• Pergamus
• Plain before Troy
• Plain by the Scamander
• Plain of Troy
• Porch of the shelter
• Ships
• Shore
• Tomb of Patroclus
• Trojan camp on the plain
• Underworld
• Wagon
• Walls of Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• War