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.

Patroclus sold him as a slave in Lemnos, where he was bought by Eetion of Imbros and brought back to Troy.

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 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.

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 ).

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.

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.

The Achaeans then conducted funeral games for Patroclus.

Patroclus was stunned by Apollo, wounded by Euphorbos, then finished off by Hector.

When Patroclus is killed, Hector tries to steal his body.

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 Iliad Zeus knows that his dearest Sarpedon will be killed by Patroclus, but he cannot save him.

Sarpedon, prince of Lycia and ally of Troy, killed Pedasos when his spear missed 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.

In his youth, Patroclus accidentally killed his friend, Clysonymus, during an argument over a game of dice.

At about that time Patroclus killed Las, founder of a namesake city near Gytheio, Laconia, according to Pausanias the geographer.

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 ).

At the time of his death, Patroclus had killed 53 enemy soldiers.

Patroclus, the Achaean warrior, killed him by throwing a " shining stone ," hitting him in the forehead and knocking his eyes out of his head.

The Trojans drive the Greeks back, but Patroclus is killed, which brings a vengeful Achilles back into the war, finally.

Before he leaves, Odysseus informs Hector it was Patroclus whom he had killed.

He wounded Patroclus before Patroclus was killed by Hector.

In the fight for Patroclus ' body, Euphorbus was killed by Menelaus.

* Las, a character in Greek mythology, killed by Patroclus

Amphidamas, father of Clitonymus, who was killed by Patroclus over a game of dice

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.

Patroclus, who enjoyed the support of the commander Constantine, used this opportunity to procure for himself the position of supremacy above mentioned, by winning over Zosimus to his ideas.

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

A native of Scyros, she had been enslaved by Achilles when the latter conquered her home island, and given by him to Patroclus.

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.

Zeus debated with himself whether to spare his son's life even though he was fated to die by the hand of Patroclus.

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