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Often appears with: slaughter as funeral sacrifice · military discipline and training · funeral rites and burial · funeral rites · cremation ceremony · achilles and patroclus burial
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · reverence (1)
After Patroclus’ death, Achilles orders the Myrmidons to mourn and drag Hector’s body aside, then organizes a funeral feast and plans dawn rites involving wood, cremation, and burial customs.
The funeral of Patroclus, and the funeral games. Thus did they make their moan throughout the city, while the Achaeans when they reached the Hellespont went back every man to his own ship. But Achilles would not let the Myrmidons go, and spoke to his brave comrades saying, “Myrmidons, famed horsemen and my own trusted friends, not yet, forsooth, let us unyoke, but with horse and chariot…