![]() ![]() The restoration of Chryseis to her father. ![]() This Thetis’ undertakes to do on the twelfth day when the gods have returned from the Aethiopians (318-429). After her departure Achilles laments to his mother, Thetis, the indignity which has been put upon him, and begs her to induce Zeus to give victory to the Trojans, that the Greeks may feel the need of his arm. Briseis is brought away by heralds whom Agamemnon has sent. Achilles is only restrained from open violence by the presence of Athene (54-317). Agamemnon yields so far as to give up Chryseis, but resolves to replace her by taking away the captive of Achilles - Briseis. The scene in the assembly, in which the quarrel breaks out between Achilles and Agamemnon. ![]() For when Chryses wished to ransom his daughter, the king sent him away with bitter reproaches, and bade him come no more to the camp. From The Iliad of Homer: Translated into English Prose (1891)īOOK I: After a short prelude, the poet enters on his subject He begins with a description of the plague which Apollo has sent upon the Grecian host in revenge for the treatment of his priest Chryses by Agamemnon. ![]()
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