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Fighter Achilles Report I

Wed Jun 10, 2009, 1:24 PM
Hey! This is :iconmukuro-sama: speaking
I've made this account cause I wanted to separate my cosplay photoshoots from my main account ^^ so I can leave this one only with my cosplay and the main one only with my drawings~


What's the meaning of this name account?

Well. Since me and :iconkoibunny: were the firsts to make a Cain and Abel cosplay ( ♥ ), we decided to take our task names on :iconstarfighter-fanclub:.

Me and :iconkoibunny: now are...

Navigator Patroclus || :iconnavigatorpatroclus::iconfighterachilles: || Fighter Achilles

Why did you chose these names?

In the Iliad, the death of Patroclus is the prime motivation of Achilles' return to battle – and subsequent quest for revenge – in the second half of the poem.

The friendship of Achilles and Patroclus is mentioned explicitly only once in the Iliad, and then in a context of military excellence; it is the comradeship of warriors who fight always in each other's company:

From then on the son of Thetis
urged that never in the moil of Ares
should Patroclus be stationed apart
from his own man-slaughtering spear.


Although Homer does not dwell on the relationship in great detail, it underpins a great deal of Achilles' actions. Achilles' strongest interpersonal bond is with Patroclus, whom he loves dearly. As Gregory Nagy points out,

For Achilles ... in his own ascending scale of affection as dramatized by the entire composition of the Iliad, the highest place must belong to Patroklos.... In fact Patroklos is for Achilles the πολὺ φίλτατος ... ἑταῖρος — the ‘hetaîros who is the most phílos by far’ (XVII 411, 655).

(Hetaîros means companion or comrade; in Homer it is usually used of soldiers under the same commander. Later the word is used of concubines.)

Achilles is tender to Patroclus, callous and arrogant towards others. Although most warriors fought for personal fame or their city-state (including Achilles), at certain junctures in the Iliad, Achilles emphasizes his relationship with Patroclus above all else. He dreams that all Greeks would die so that he and Patroclus might gain the fame of conquering Troy alone. After Patroclus dies, Achilles agonizes touching his dead body, smearing himself with ash, and fasting. He laments Patroclus' death using language very similar to that later used by Andromache of Hector. Achilles returns to the battlefield with the sole aim of revenging himself upon Hector, Patroclus' killer, even though the gods had warned him that it would cost him his life.

Achilles' attachment to Patroclus is an archetypal male bond that occurs elsewhere in Greek culture: Damon and Pythias, Orestes and Pylades, Harmodius and Arisogiton are pairs of comrades who gladly face danger and death for and beside each other.

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:iconomiyukixo:
Uma conta para o cosplay! Bem pensado! Vou te adicionar!<3

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:iconfighterachilles:
yey <3 obrigadinha Myu~

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