Thetis was forced by the gods to mate with Peleus, producing a half-god son, Achilles. Phthia is ruled by another king, Peleus, who’s married to the sea-nymph Thetis. As punishment, Patroclus’s father strips his son of his title and banishes him to the kingdom of Phthia, which Patroclus knows is a fate worse than death. Later, when Patroclus is back home, he gets into an altercation with a nobleman’s son, pushing the boy and inadvertently killing him. Everyone-including Patroclus-agrees, and Helen chooses Menelaus. He proposes a solution: Helen should choose her husband, and the men should vow to defend him. At the palace, one of the gathered men, Odysseus, worries the suitors will kill one another over Helen. When Patroclus is nine, his father takes him to Sparta, home to the beautiful princess Helen-she’s ready to marry, and Patroclus will make his case as a suitor. Patroclus, a young Greek prince, grows up disliked by his father: his mother is intellectually disabled, and his father resents them both for their weakness.
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