Queer love stories in games usually come in two flavours: those that are defined solely by their queerness, and those that are just like heteronormative relationships with the serial numbers filed ...

How does a writer tackle the greatest story ever told? Madeline Miller talks about why she focused on Patroclus, Achilles’ slaughtered lover in The Iliad—and what the ancients made of love and ...

She regards him as “a tragic figure” because it’s his own “petulance” and love of glory that sets in motion the death of his friend Patroclus. Due to a slight he believes he has suffered at the hands ...

One of the most powerful passages in The Iliad is in Book 18, when a weeping Greek soldier comes to the tent of Achilles and tells him that his lifelong friend Patroclus has fallen in battle ...

The novel is a fictitious retelling of the classic Greek myth of Achilles and his companion and rumored lover, Patroclus. Miller tells the story of their love through the eyes of Patroclus, spanning ...

And I’ve always been fascinated that what eventually leads the Greeks to victory against Troy is the death of Patroclus, a man inconsequential to all but Achilles, who calls him “the dearest ...

According to some researchers, such as Peter Blome, the burial of this prince of Lefkandi bears many similarities to the funeral rite most detailed in book 23 of the Iliad, the burial of Patroclus.

Russ and five other citizen astronomers contributed to the detection of Patroclus, an asteroid orbiting Jupiter. The purpose of detecting the asteroid is to serve NASA's upcoming mission in ...

It transports its observers from the present to the precipice of an ancient conflict, above the Greek Fleet, into the argument between Agamemnon and Achilles, the death of Patroclus, Hector’s ...

Deprived of Achilles’s godlike skill in combat, tens of thousands of Greeks die as the price of his honor, but it is the death of his friend Patroclus that truly arouses Achilles’s rage.