kallistoi: marcvs-antonivs: What were the Greek ships on fire compared to this loss? Louise Gl&u

kallistoi:

marcvs-antonivs:

What were the Greek ships on fire

compared to this loss?

Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles

[image description: a two panel, black and white illustration in ink and pencil, with strips of text on a white background edited digitally onto it, so it looks collaged. the first panel shows a man with short, dark, curly hair and a beard in a breastplate. his face is in profile and he looks slightly melancholy. the panel is captioned, “in the story of patroclus.”

the panel below shows another man, this one with slightly longer, pale hair. he also wears a breastplate and, although facing forward, looks moodily to the side. the panel is captioned, “no one survives, not even achilles / who was nearly a god. / patroclus resembled him; they wore / the same armor.”]