Just so I don't forget
Who's the well-greaved Achaean who's a death machine to Priam's sons? Achilles!
Who's the man that wouldn't risk his neck for his brother man? Achilles!
Who's the cat who won't cop out when there's danger all about? Achilles!
They say this cat Achilles is a swift mother--shut your mouth!--I'm talkin' 'bout kleos--then we can dig it!
He's a complicated man, but no one understands him but Patroclus--Achilles!
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on 2005-03-22 11:10:42.0, dave zacuto commented:
First of all, strongly; strongly greaved (unless you're not using the Lattimore translation, perhaps, I guess). Second, he completely copped out until his ship was basically on fire.
Otherwise, a(N) hilarious skewering of Homeric blaxploitation.
Briseis might have understood him. I once maintained that Patroclus was a doppelganger of his who also figured both as his son and father at different times.