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1. I Would Know Him in Death by orphan_account

   Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   04 Aug 2016

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Achilles/Patroclus
   • Briseis & Patroclus
   • Patroclus (Song of Achilles)
   • Achilles (Song of Achilles)
   • Briseis (Song of Achilles)
   • Menoitius (Song of Achilles)
   • Chiron (Song of Achilles)
   • Deidameia (Song of Achilles)
   • Odysseus (Song of Achilles)
   • Reincarnation
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • briseis must be protected at all costs
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Heavy Angst
   • sorry - Freeform
   • Alternate Universe - Pirate
   • Alternate Universe - Victorian
   • boxer!patroclus
   • aristocrat!achilles
   • Alternate Universe - Mob
   • bodyguard!patroclus
   • kingpin!achilles

   Summary

   "Come back! Even as a shadow,
   even as a dream."

   -Euripides, Herakles

    

   A Cyprian godhead creates lives the two doomed lovers could have lived. Thetis is forced to watch as her son and his beloved companion are torn apart and remade, each time further tarnished with the little sorrows of humanity.

   After all, what is love without tragedy?

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

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