The Dream of Achilles

Emily Wilson, A.S. Kline, Robert Fitzgerald

• This week while teaching The Iliad we looked at Book XXIII’s “The Dream of Achilles,” where Patroclus returns from the dead in a dream to make commands. Arguably, this could be considered one of the oldest texts depicting gay lovers in the world. Not all scholars agree. Even so, the Ancient Greeks were in on it.

• Plato has Socrates and friends in The Sym…