[5] The death of Achilles filled the army with dismay, and they buried him with Patroclus in the White Isle,* mixing the bones of the two together. It is said that after death Achilles consorts with Medea in the Isles of the Blest.

* a wooded island in the Euxine (Black Sea) off the mouth of the Danube

The first to affirm that Achilles married Medea in the Elysian Fields was the poet Ibycus, and the tale was afterwards repeated by Simonides.

(Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. iv.815)