Achilles - Blog Posts
The Song of Achilles
Thinking of Patrochilles when listening a love/sad/romantic song and then feeling too much than you already feel about them.
Mood.
There's an ache in me which spreads like a wildfire when I think about Patrochilles.
Two days after reading The Song of Achilles, I'm at the stage where I search their tag in every social media and go through it for hours and hours and suffer in its bitter-sweet story.
"We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other."
-Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles is a fantastic book. AchillesxPatroclus's love story is heart-touching and legendary. I'm glad that I've read this book, even though it's heart-wrenching to read some parts.I thank Madeline Miller for writing this piece of story from Greek history/myth. Her writing is amazing. The way she weave words and describe the emotions and the beauty of everything is just wonderful. PATROCHILLES ARE GOING TO BE IN MY HEART FOREVER. ❤
One prayer more will I make you, if you will grant it; let not my bones be laid apart from yours, Achilles, but with them; even as we were brought up together in your own home
The Iliad XXIII tr. S. Butler
The Iliad is insane. Like batshit crazy. I'm only on book 4 so far. Its chaotic af
- More 💖drama💖 than any soap opera.
- Achilles asking his mom to kill everyone just cos they upset him
- Achilles Daddy Issues!
- Achilles & Patroclus seem cute in theory, but ACHILLES DOESN'T DESERVE PATROCLUS.
- Thetis is a mafia mommy, literally every God owes her.
- hera just like if I kill ur fav city, u can kill mine
- Helen literally calls herself a slut
- Hector calls his brother paris: "sex crazed seducer", & "should never have been born" & "disgrace"
- We love Hector.
- ACHILLES IS A DISNEY PRINCESS!!!!!
- Ares just vibin in all the death.
- we live to be as petty as Eris
- almost all female characters are girlboss, gatekeep, gaslight.
- all homeric heroes literal psychopaths.💀
- agamemnon's brother gets shot, he literally makes a speech about how that affects him - Menelaus literally comforts him while bleeding
- athene grabs Achilles' hair and stops him from lunging to kill someone, while invisible. That most look so silly.
- We also love Nestor 😍