His most successful patrol occurred in November and December 1940 when U-99 sank three British armed merchant cruisers ( AMC ), HMS Laurentic ( 18, 724 tons ), HMS Patroclus ( 11, 314 tons ) and ( 16, 402 tons ).

The lough is also famous for its wildlife-watching ( dolphins, porpoise, sea birds, migratory geese and swans ) and diving on the numerous ship wrecks, including the SS Laurentic sunk by a German mine ( possible torpedo ), which went down with 3, 211 ingots of gold of which 3, 191 were recovered.

His bones were mingled with those of Patroclus, and funeral games were held.

In 1906 – 1907 two more Jupiter Trojans were found by fellow German astronomer August Kopff ( 624 Hektor and 617 Patroclus ).

Among the contenders were Odysseus, Menestheus, Ajax the Great, Patroclus, and Idomeneus.

Among the contenders were Odysseus, Ajax the great, Diomedes, Achilles, Patroclus, Idomeneus, and both Menelaus and Agamemnon.

According to other accounts, he was slain by Hector or by Paris in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo together with Achilles His ashes, along with those of Achilles and Patroclus, were enshrined in a mound on the promontory of Sigeion, where the inhabitants of Ilium offered sacrifice to the dead heroes.

In his lust for combat, Patroclus pursued the Trojans all the way back to the gates of Troy, defying Achilles ' order to break off combat once the ships were saved.

His bones were mingled with those of Patroclus so that the two would be companions in death as in life and the remains were transferred to Leuke, an island in the Black Sea.

When he withdrew from battle, his wounds were tended by Patroclus.

However, Arrian describes the occasion when Alexander and Hephaestion publicly identified themselves with Achilles and Patroclus, who were acknowledged, by Plato and Aeschylus among others, to have been lovers.

Already the two were intimate, Patroclus and Achilles even to those around them ; the comparison would remain to the end of their days and is proof of their life as lovers, for by Alexander's time, Achilles and Patroclus were agreed to have enjoyed the relationship which Homer himself had never directly mentioned.

Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion, and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander, this might have followed in spirit Achilles ' killing of "... twelve high-born youths ..." beside Patroclus ' funeral pyre.

Deliberately running into an opponent to cause him to crash was technically illegal, but nothing could be done about it ( at Patroclus ' funeral games, Antilochus in fact causes Menelaus to crash in this way ), and crashes were likely to happen by accident anyway.

According to an epitome of the lost Trojan War epic of Arctinus of Miletus, the remains of Achilles and Patroclus were brought to this island by Thetis, to be put in a sanctuary.

Mycenaeans were buried in a sitting position, and some of the nobility underwent mummification, whereas Homer's Achilles and Patroclus were not buried but cremated, in Iron-Age fashion, and honoured with a gold urn, instead of gold masks.

Honey and oil, described by Homer as offerings to the dead are also found at Salamis, and the flames of fire that consumed the deceased were quenched with wine as it happened to Patroclus ' body after it was given to the flames.

These bonds, reflected in episodes from Greek mythology, such as the heroic relationship between Achilles and Patroclus in the Iliad, were thought to boost morale as well as bravery due to the want to impress and protect their lover.

Other ancients held that Achilles and Patroclus were simply close friends.

Patroclus is the only object in the Trojan camp to be named after a Greek character ; the naming conventions for the trojan asteroids were not adopted until after Patroclus was named ( similarly, the asteroid Hektor is the only Trojan character to appear in the Greek camp ).

In the Iliad, it is told how, when Patroclus was killed in battle, Xanthus and Balius stood motionless on the field of battle, and wept.

Patroclus comforted Briseis in her fear of being alone among her enemies and her grief over the loss of her country, her family, and her freedom and did not let her weep by promising to have Achilles make her his wife and that he would give a wedding feast for them on their return to Phthia after the war had ended.

The body of Patroclus is lifted by Menelaus and Meriones ( mythology ) | Meriones while Odysseus and others look on ( Etruscan relief, 2nd century BC )

Achilles sheared off his hair, and sacrificed horses, dogs, and twelve Trojan captives before placing Patroclus ' body on the funeral pyre.

Patroclus is cremated on a funeral pyre, and his bones are collected into a golden urn in two layers of fat.

He laid a wreath on the tomb of Achilles, and Hephaestion laid a wreath on the tomb of Patroclus, and they ran a race, naked, to honour their dead heroes.

" Aelian takes the latter view when he uses just such an expression when describing the visit to Troy: " Alexander laid a garland on Achilles ' tomb and Hephaestion on Patroclus ', indicating that he was Alexander's eromenos, as Patroclus was of Achilles.

Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles ' last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: "... he laid the lock of hair in the hands of his beloved companion, and the whole company was moved to tears.

The Egyptian admiral, Patroclus, landed on a small uninhabited island near Laurium and fortified it as a base for naval operations.

It is known from artistic evidence on pottery that the sport existed in the Mycenaean world, but the first literary reference to a chariot race is the one described by Homer, at the funeral games of Patroclus.

( Shakespeare apparently was able to learn enough about the content of the " Iliad ," whether directly from Chapman's translation, or from an acquaintance with what Chapman was working on acquired otherwise, to enable him to put forth " Troilus and Cressida " in 1601-2 ; that play is remarkable for interweaving the Iliadic story of the deaths of Patroclus and Hector with the quite un-Iliadic story of love betrayed as told first in English by Geoffrey Chaucer in his masterpiece " Troilus and Criseyde.

The Greeks had also mistaken Patroclus for Achilles, since he had put on Achilles ' armour and moved like Achilles.

Patroclus is burned on a pyre, and his bones are collected into a golden urn in two layers of fat.

Early examples are known such as those held for Patroclus by Achilles, described by Homer and in Book 5 of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas organizes athletic contests on the anniversary of his father's death.

" At the funeral games of Patroclus, Nestor advises Antilochus on how to win the chariot race.

Karl Reinhardt argues that this is contrary to what Patroclus really originally wanted – in fact, he is only there to receive information on behalf of Achilles about the wounded Machaon.

This led to a disagreement on whom to make the erastes and whom the eromenos, since the Homeric tradition made Patroclus out to be older but Achilles stronger.

It is one of the most important paradigms used in Neoanalytic scholarship on Homer because of strong similarities between its story of Achilles, Antilochus, and Memnon, and the Iliadic story of Achilles, Patroclus, and Hector ; the claim that such a similarity exists is known as the " Memnon theory ".

Later that night, Achilles lights Patroclus ' funeral pyre.

Garrett John Hedlund ( born September 3, 1984 ) is an American actor known for his roles in the films Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers, Eragon, Country Strong, for his role as Patroclus in the movie Troy, as Sam Flynn in Tron: Legacy and as Dean Moriarty ( Neal Cassady ) in the film On the Road.

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