Look at us. Both doomed to stain red with our blood
the same plot of earth, a world away in Troy!
For not even I will voyage home again. Never.
No embrace in his halls from the old horseman Peleus
nor from mother, Thetis – this alien earth I stride
will hold me down at last.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 18, lines 382-387. Achilles is speaking to the Myrmidons, foreshading his own death in Troy just like his friend Patroclus. He says that he will die without the embrace of his parents, his father Peleus and his mother the goddess Thetis.