HUM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sarpedon, Myrmidons, Lycians
Document Summary
When patroklos reaches achilleus, he is in tears. Achilleus makes fun of him for crying, but patroklos defends himself. He tells off achilleus for being a jerk, and asks for permission to lead the myrmidons into battle as nestor suggested. Achilles agrees, and tells patroclus to take his armor. The only condition he imposes is that patroklos should only drive the trojans off the ships. Ajax has no more energy to defend the ship he"s been guarding. Patroklos arms himself in achilleus gear, taking everything except his spear, which only. Achilleus gives them a speech to encourage them, and then goes back to his hut. There he prays to zeus to give patroklos courage and success. He also asks that, once he has driven the trojans off the ships, he come home safe and unharmed. We are told that zeus grants the first part of the prayer, but not the second.
