the greeks were struggling frantically to protect their ships and prevent the trojans
from setting them on fire the trojans sensed that the long-awaited victory was within their grasp
but they had no idea that their luck was about to change the sound of the wheels of achilles
chariot pulled by the two divine horses xanthus and balius made the trojans hearts
tremble patroclus wearing achilles armor headed the mighty myrmidons off to fight their enemies
frightened and eager to save their own lives the trojans on the forefront fled in confusion
meanwhile they were pursued and had their flanks battered by the greek spears
from the top of achilles chariot patroclus took out trojans by the dozens with accurate stabs
from his spears but sarpadan was a trojan ally as well as king of leicester and son of zeus he was
bent on stopping the achaeans counter-attack patroclus leaped from the divine chariot and
dashed against the son of zeus sarpadan was strong and experienced but his age had eroded his
endurance he was not up to the task of fighting a warrior as good as patroclus who had achilles as
his training opponent for most of his life from above zeus looked at his beloved son in peril
of his life and thought of intervening but was scolded by the other gods it would be disgraceful
for the gods to freely intervene in the destiny of men to save the life of one of their descendants
just to avoid the pain of loss zeus resigned himself to let sarpadon's fate be fulfilled
patroclus easily dodged the thrusts of king lysean's
spear just standing by to deliver the fatal blow
the greeks rejoiced as they stripped sarpadan's body of its glorious armor and weapons however
sent by zeus both thanatos and hypnos carried the dead king's body back to lycia preventing
the corpse of zeus's son from being defiled thus he could have a dignified funeral in his homeland
patroclus's heart had started to be seized by pride which made him believe that he could lead
the capture of troy that day completely forgetting achilles warning not to pursue the trojans who
fled behind the walls on the very front of the trojan walls stood hector but patroclus did not
look daunted by the presence of such a mighty hero but patroclus's shining moments were over
zeus was sending apollo to weaken the man who had killed his beloved son
patroglis's spear broke and the straps that tied achilles armor to his body snapped rendering
the hero defenseless that's when a trojan named euphorbus struck patroclus in his flank attacking
him with his spear hector drove his spear through the body of achilles cherished friend
with patroclus dying at his feet hector called him a fool to think he would take troy that day
saying that the trojan vultures would feast on his corpse patroclus used his remaining strength
to say that hector was bragging about a victory that was not his after all the greatest blow he
suffered was dealt by zeus and apollo then it would be euphorbuses and only then would come
the one from the trojan prince the greek hero also stated that by killing him he lured to himself the
shadow of death that now surrounded hector because achilles revenge would fall heavily on the trojan
hector would carry achilles armor back to troy as a trophy and place it on an altar
in honor of the gods meanwhile trojans and greeks fought over the body of patroclus
with the arrival of the mighty ajax the greek succeeded in retrieving patroclus's body
and bringing it back to the camp the news of patroclus's death changed the course of the war
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