Achilles then tied Hector’s body to his chariot and dragged it back to the Greek camp. Enraged, Achilles sought out and killed Hector, who prophesied with his dying breath that Achilles would soon die as well. Eventually, however, he agreed to let Patroclus wear his armor and lead his men in his place, resulting in Patroclus’s death at the hands of the Trojan prince Hector. Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army, had taken a slave-girl from Achilles, and Achilles in turn refused to fight, angered by both the loss of the girl and the insult of Agamemnon taking her. Patroclus has recently died, in part as a result of Achilles’s own actions. Most of all, however, he thinks about his friend and adoptive brother Patroclus, who grew up with Achilles after being exiled for inadvertently killing a playmate. He thinks about his mother, a sea goddess, and his son Neoptolemus, whom he has not seen since leaving for war. In the tenth year of the Trojan War, Achilles-a demigod and the greatest of all the Greek warriors-stands brooding on the shores of the sea.
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