Back cover: "I am not here to tell the story of the Trojan War. This is the story of my flesh, where death and love met." With these words from Patroclus, Achilles' comrade-in-arms, begins the monologue of En mitad de tanto fuego, the song of a mythological character who was, above all, flesh in love and desire. Taking as a starting point canto XVI of the Iliad, the playwright Alberto Conejero offers us a personal and intimate approach to Homero's poem, a new perspective lived and told from a secondary character in the usual narrative, as debated as it is fascinating and mysterious: Patroclus, the "most beloved" by Achilles. En mitad de tanto fuego — which links various eras and includes references and quotes from, among others, Sappho, Pedro Lemebel, Anne Carson, and Luis Cernuda — is an attempt to tell the story differently, an anti-war plea, and another demonstration of art’s impotence in the face of war; an oratorio for the victims that speaks of concepts such as power, passion, violence, and homeland. Alberto Conejero, winner of the 2019 National Dramatic Literature Award and one of the most recognized Spanish playwrights, thus shares the beauty, mystery, and darkness of an epic poem and brings us closer to a fundamental work of classical Greek literature.