the iliad summary Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/the-iliad-summary Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 The Iliad & Achilles’ Wrath http://travelsfinders.com/the-iliad-achilles-wrath.html http://travelsfinders.com/the-iliad-achilles-wrath.html#respond Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:48:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244992 In the tenth year hostilities broke out in earnest. But there was further internal conflict in the Greek camp. Angered by Agamemnon’s refusal to restore the captured daughter of Chryses, his priest, to her father, Apollo sent a plague against the Greeks, lifting it only after they complied. But when, as compensation, Agamemnon took Achilles slave girl, Briseis, Achilles refused to fight. Instead, with his comrade Patroclus, he sulked in his tent, singing moodily of the famous deeds of men. Achilles absence encouraged the Trojans. Even Paris swaggered in the front line: Draped across his shoulders was a panther skin,

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