Status Updates From Ιλιάδα

Book 22: Achilles pursues and kills Hector outside Troy, despite Hector’s desperate attempt to escape, and dishonours his body by dragging it behind his chariot. Book 23: Achilles holds funeral games in honour of Patroclus, with the Greeks competing in chariot racing, boxing, wrestling and other contests, while Patroclus’ funeral is prepared.

“Is that why you beckon here beside me now
with all the immortal cunning in your heart?
Well, go to him yourself - you hover beside him!
Abandon the gods’ high road and be a mortal!
Never set foot again on Mount Olympus, never! -
suffer for Paris, protect Paris, for eternity…
until he makes you his wedded wife - that or his slave.
Not I, I’ll never go back again.”