iliad book 11 Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/iliad-book-11 Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Meleager in the Iliad http://travelsfinders.com/meleager-in-the-iliad.html http://travelsfinders.com/meleager-in-the-iliad.html#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:21:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244817 In the Iliad, to try to turn aside Achilles’ wrath over the loss of his slave girl and persuade him to return to the fighting, a Greek delegation reminds him of the battle at Calydon. In this version, Meleager, angry with Altheia, withdraws from the conflict outside the city, and stays at home with his wife Cleopatra, nursing his heart-aching wrath, in fury at his mother’s curses which, mourning her brothers’ death, she called upon him from the gods. Repeatedly she beat her fists on the rich earth, as she stretched out on the ground, her bosom wet with tears,

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