Rereading the epic in January, I found that the quarrelsome and dysfunctional principals had become an oddly familiar cast of ...

Episode 5 Patroclus is slain by Hector and Achilles ... including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is Helen’s elopement from the Spartan court ...

Achilles still has the hump and refuses to fight. So his cousin Patroclus takes the superhero's special armour and returns to the battle…but unfortunately for Patroclus he's no superhero.