Question: could you please provide a list with all of achilles romantic interests? I know about briseis deidamia patroclus( medea possibly)
Oh boy all of them? Hahaha well that will be hard to do with absolute certainty but here goes;
Women: (more clearly stated in sources that he either has feelings for or he simply desires)
Briseis: Spoil of war but also many times mentioned as his love interest by Achilles himself
Deidamia: daughter of Lycomedes according to sources like Statius she was the first time Achilles encounters lust with her and also romantic love for a woman
Iphigenia: In Euripides Achilles expresses his love for Iphigenia for her bravery and expresses his jealousy towards Greece for having her
Medea: his heavenly wife according to Apollodorous in Elysium
Helen: according to some sources Achilles either dreams of her in some sort of wet dream or he sees her on the balcony and is taken over by lust for her
Polyxena: the daughter of Priam sparked love and interest to Achilles and in some sources she was the source of his doom or in others she was the concubine he chose for his afterlife so demanding her sacrifice to him
Penthesilea: queen of the Amazons killed by him. Achilles falls in love with her a little after she dies when he sees her face under the helmet
Diomeda: spoil of war. Not ever stated that he has love interest in her or just pure lust but mentioned in Homer as a bed mate of his
Men: (Male love interests are more nuanced in the sources and many of them are up for interpretation of the text)
Patroclus: Arguably the best known example from post-homeric sources and philosophers
Antilochus: son of Nestor mentioned in the Odyssey to be his second favorite after Patroclus. buried in the same tomb but ultimately not the same urn
Troilus: Achilles is taken over by lust for Troilus and even attempts to rape him (but this is probably attributed to much later sources)
Palamedes and Protesilaus: not really love interests per se but both of these figures have been described very close to Achilles in later sources
Honestly these are the love interests of his that come to my mind currently based on the epic cycle. Not sure if I forget anyone. The sources are much more obvious to his female love interests while there is a certain ambiguity with his male ones but ultimately I love to think of the potential of many of them
Hope it helps^_^
