A Thousand Ships
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When a war was ended, the men lost their lives. But the women lost everything else. And victory had made the Greeks no kinder.
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She was her father’s daughter and no Greek would see her cry.
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She was returned to Achilles, and therefore to Patroclus, the night before the latter went to battle the Trojans. Patroclus combed her hair for her carefully, almost lovingly.
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the blood of his father ran through his veins more thickly than she had believed. And so she wept, but her tears tasted of nothing.