“Short life and long fame for me,” said Achilles, fingering his sword. So his father gave him fifty ships, fully manned, and Patroclus to go with him for his friend and sword-companion. And his mother, weeping still, armed him in his father's armor; glorious war gear that Hephaestus, the smith of the gods, had made for him.

—Black Ships Before Troy,
Rosemary Sutcliff

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