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Patroclus drove the Trojans all the way back to the walls of Troy, and was only prevented from storming the city by the intervention of Apollo.
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Patroclus and Trojans
Ajax, assisted by Menelaus, succeeds in fighting off the Trojans and taking the body back with his chariot ; however, the Trojans had already stripped Patroclus of Achilles ' armor.
Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.
In 1906 – 1907 two more Jupiter Trojans were found by fellow German astronomer August Kopff ( 624 Hektor and 617 Patroclus ).
Meanwhile, warrior Menelaus, Atreus ' son, standing by Patroclus, has just killed the best man of the Trojans, Euphorbus, son of Panthous, ending his brave fight.
When the tide of war turned away from the Acheans, and the Trojans threatened their ships, Patroclus convinced Achilles to let him don Achilles ' armor and lead the Myrmidons into combat.
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.
Patroclus killed many Trojans and allies including the Lycian hero Sarpedon ( a son of Zeus ), and Cebriones ( the chariot driver of Hector and illegitimate son of Priam ).
In Book XVIII of the Iliad, Polydamas advises the Trojans to retire from the battlefield after the death of Patroclus.
The Trojans drive the Greeks back, but Patroclus is killed, which brings a vengeful Achilles back into the war, finally.
* west face – a scene from the Iliad and Trojan War, the Greeks and Trojans fighting for the body of Patroclus.
Patroclus and all
Patroclus gained the confidence of the new pope at once ; as early as 22 March he received a papal letter which conferred upon him the rights of a metropolitan over all the bishops of the Gallic provinces of Viennensis and Narbonensis I and II.
Book XXIII-In the funeral games of Patroclus, Diomedes ( though wounded ) won all the games he played.
Patroclus and way
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.
Patroclus and back
Hector strips the armor of Achilles off the fallen Patroclus and gives it to his men to take back to the city.
Patroclus sold him as a slave in Lemnos, where he was bought by Eetion of Imbros and brought back to Troy.
Patroclus and walls
In a passage in Iliad, Apollo tries three times to stop Patroclus in front of the walls of Troy, warning him that it is " over his portion " to sack the city.
Patroclus and Troy
Confusingly, 617 Patroclus was named before the Greece / Troy rule was devised, and a Greek name thus appears in the Trojan node ; the Greek node also has one " misplaced " asteroid, 624 Hektor, named after a Trojan hero.
Sarpedon, prince of Lycia and ally of Troy, killed Pedasos when his spear missed Patroclus.
Still others claimed he was the son of Heracles's friend, Opian Menoetius, which would make Abderus a brother to Patroclus, the famous companion of Achilles who died at Troy.
" 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.
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.
Patroclus and was
She was also one of two horses driven by Menelaus at the funeral games of Patroclus.
In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, he contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace ; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.
The festival was attended by Patroclus, Bishop of Arles, who had been raised to that See in place of Bishop Heros of Arles, who had been forcibly and unjustly removed by the imperial general Constantine.
In addition, he was made a kind of papal vicar for the whole of Gaul ; no Gallic ecclesiastic being permitted to journey to Rome without bringing with him a certificate of identity from Patroclus.
An earlier appeal to Achilles to return was rejected, but after Hector burned Protesilaus ' ship, he allowed his close friend and relative Patroclus to go into battle wearing Achilles ' armour and lead his army.
Patroclus was then killed by Hector, who took Achilles ' armour from the body of Patroclus.
Hektor, like Achilles, belonged to the swarm (" ahead " of the planet in its orbit ), while Patroclus was the first asteroid known to reside at the Lagrangian point (" behind " the planet ).
Patroclus of Arles ( d. 426 ) had received from Pope Zosimus the recognition of a subordinate primacy over the Gallican Church which was strongly asserted by his successor Hilary of Arles.
As recounted in Homer's Iliad, Iphis was the mistress of Patroclus, Achilles ' companion-in-arms.
Achilles, still recovering from Patroclus ' death, found Polyxena's words a comfort and was later told to go to the temple of Apollo to meet her after her devotions.
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.
At Iliad 17. 590, Automedon, Achilles ' charioteer, states that only Patroclus was able to fully control these horses.
When Xanthus was rebuked by the grieving Achilles for allowing Patroclus to be slain, Hera granted Xanthus human speech which broke Divine law, saying that a god had killed Patroclus, and that a god would soon kill Achilles too.
Briseis was among those to lament and mourn over the death of Patroclus.
Another daughter, Sthenele ( Σθενέλη ), was given by the Bibliotheca as the wife of Menoetius and mother of Patroclus.
He was a favorite of the gods and a friend of Achilles, to whom he was commissioned to announce the death of Patroclus.
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.
However, during Patroclus ' funeral games, Diomedes was overwhelming Ajax when his comrades advised the fighting to stop, lest one of them get injured.
Patroclus and only
If Zeus should spare his son from his fate, another god might do the same ; therefore Zeus let Sarpedon die while fighting Patroclus, but not before killing the only mortal horse of Achilles.
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.
Hector slays Patroclus, and Achilles laments the death of his only friend before challenging Hector to a duel.
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 ).
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