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Aeschylus’s lost The Myrmidons also appeared to have had sexual and romantic love, between Achilles and Patroclus, at its heart.

From The Guardian • Nov. 10, 2016

Grassy knolls teemed with minotaurs, cyborgs, warlocks, Myrmidons, figures clothed only in metallic body paint or Pan-like ivy tendrils.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2015

He is delighted to interrogate Charon, the boatman taking him across the Styx, wanting to find out more about what happened in Aeschylus' lost play, Myrmidons.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010

One Homer served to immortalize the story of 100,000 Myrmidons before the city of Troy.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Patroclus put on the splendid armor all the Trojans knew and feared, and led the Myrmidons, Achilles’ men, to the battle.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton