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Sep 2018
32m 18s

Patroclus, Patroclus, Patroclus (The Ili...

Liv Albert
About this episode

Things get dark for our beloved Greeks... *sigh* Patroclus.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: The Iliad, translated by Stephen Mitchell.

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