has anyone read the Illiad .. and if so could you please help me. Right now I'm on chapter nineteen where Achilles has returned to war and got his girl back from Agamemnon. So, my question is what happens from there on???
2007-11-30 02:39:07 · 5 answers · asked by Marquita :D 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
his mother thetis asks the god hephaestus, the smith to forge him golden armor and he returns to battle and kills almost one hundred enemy fighters. he meets hector and after chasing him around the walls of troy three times, stabs him in the throat with hector's mother, father, wife and baby child watching. achilles then ties hector's corpse to the back of his chariot and drags it in the dust, refusing the trojan hero's request that his body be given back to his family for honorable burial. in desperation, king priam of troy, the father of hector, makes an embassy to the greek camp late at night to beg the killer of his son for the body, kept from decomposing by the gods, so that he can give it an honorable burial. achilles, pitying priam because he brought his own ageing father to mind, gives hector's corpse back to his father and the iliad closes with hector's burial.
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2007-11-30 03:12:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
BTW I love love XC, just got back from competiton at state!!!! Anyways, I read the Illiad this year. It's the worst book ever. My suggestion is don't bother reading the second half it's too confusing anyway. Go to sparknotes, and cliffnotes, read all that, and hope for the best. Good Luck
2007-11-30 04:33:38 · answer #2 · answered by Courtney H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
By Jove, just read it, it's good! Mars and Apollo, Achilles, Juno? Cassandra, Hector et al burn up the nights!
2007-11-30 03:08:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
uh...the servant he got back from Agamemnon was his BOY.
2007-11-30 02:42:47 · answer #4 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES I have read it. Please read it and make us Classics people happy and feel like someone is listening and still cares.
2007-12-01 15:54:45 · answer #5 · answered by Classics Major 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋