The chapter begins with the dead Patroclus with Menelaus
defending the corpse. Euphorbus wants
the corpse however Menelaus kills him by a spear through the neck. Menelaus begins to strip the armor of
Euphorbus and when Hector sees, he leads the armor to defend the corpse of
Euphorbus and claim the corpse of Patroclus.
Hector then takes the armor of Patroclus but loses the naked corpse to
Menelaus and Ajax. Glaucus rebukes
Hector for leaving the body and suggests that they could have traded it for
Sarpedon’s. Hector raced back to the
wall and strips his own armor and puts on the armor of Achilles (that Patroclus
had been wearing). Zeus was disturbed
but made the armor fit Hector and Aries filled him with strength to go back
into battle with power. There is then a
series of killings back and forth while fighting over the corpse of Patroclus.
Hippothous killed by Ajax
Schedius Killed by Hector (who
was trying to kill Ajax)
Phorcys killed by Ajax
The Trojans begin to back off and the Greeks claim the corpse
as well as the armor of the two fallen Trojans.
Apollo rallies the Trojans who then turn back to fight and then there is
then a few more killings. Leocritus is
killed who is revenged by his friend Lycomedes who kills Apisaon. During this whole thing Achilles has no clue
but the decision is made to send Nestor’s son to go tell him in an effort to
claim the corpse and push back the Trojans.
The Greeks do seem to claim Patroclus’s body.
Essentially a large group of people die over the struggle to
take claim over the body of Patroclus. Hector
does claim the armor of Achilles and puts it on sealing his doom and future
death.
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