Patroclus Funeral Games

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The Funeral Games of Patroclus
Narrated by Meriones

Hey, I’m Meriones, the son of Molus and the comrade and squire of Idomeneus. Today I found that some “great warrior” was killed. His name was Patroclus or something. Everyone was acting ridiculous in my opinion. First Achilles called everyone outside so we could drive our chariots around his body. Wow, what a great way to show we care for someone…not. While I was driving my chariot everyone around me was weeping and mourning for the loss of Patroclus. To tell you the truth I’ve never heard of Patroclus doing anything special for the Achean army. I think that Zeus probably commanded Achilles to make a big deal out of this death. Otherwise we probably would have just thrown him on some wood and burned him or the easier funeral, throw him in the ocean. Meanwhile Hector, the leader of the Trojan army, was dead and we had the body. Achilles …show more content…

Achilles cut a lock of his hair off to put with Patroclus to honor him. He also announced that he would be buried next to him when he died. When he said that I hope that it would be soon. After the funeral was over Achilles went on another mad streak and dragged Hectors body around town a few times. When he got back I noticed that there were no scratches or cuts on Hector. It looked as if he just lied down to take a nap. That was very peculiar to me, so I decided to check into it more. The only god that I could get information from was Hephaistus, the son of Zeus and Hera. He is the only god that favors me because of an incident long ago. So I prayed to him that he would come to me. Soon he came and I asked him about the situation and he told me that Athena and Apollo were protecting Hector so that the Trojans could get him back and have a proper funeral. I was shocked. After Hephaistus left I realized that if I tell Achilles about what is going on he might gain respect for

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