finelythreadedsky:Classical Literature and Folk Ballads: the ghost of Patroclus with AchillesThe Unq
finelythreadedsky:Classical Literature and Folk Ballads: the ghost of Patroclus with AchillesThe Unquiet Grave (Child 78/Roud 51)Iliad 23.71-71: bury me, so I may soon complete my passage through the gates of Hades/ the ghostly shades of the suffering surround me far from you/ and yet they let me not join them across the river/ so I drift deserted through the wide-gated house of Hades.The Wife of Usher’s Well (Child 79/Roud 196) -- source link
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