Patroclus

Patroclus was the son of Menoetius, and childhood friend and brother-in-arms of Achilles. Critics have long speculated on the exact nature of the relationship between Patroclus and Aeneas; for years the traditional assumption was that they were simply friends, but such queer theory scholars as Teresa de Lauretis have pointed to unusually intimate textual clues that indicate that perhaps the two were intimately involved, a situation that would not have been uncommon at the time of the epic. Patroclus was killed by Hector at the gates of Troy during the Trojan War.