Iliad (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Homer
- First Published: 750
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Epic
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- Setting: Troy
- Principal Characters: Priam, Hector, Helen of Troy, Paris, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Achilles, Patroclus
- Genres: Poetry, Epic, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, War, Kings, queens, or royalty, Legends, Gods or goddesses, Heroes or heroism, Greek or Roman times, Battles, Greece or Greek people, Trojan War, Bronze Age
- Locales: Troy, ancient, Hades, Mount Olympus (mythic)
The Story:
The Greeks were camped outside the walls of Troy, in the tenth year of their siege on that city. Agamemnon, king of the Achaians, wanted the maid, Briseis, for his own, but she was possessed by Achilles, a mortal son of Zeus, king of the gods. When Achilles was forced to give up the maid, he withdrew angrily from the battle and returned to his ship. He won from Zeus the promise that the wrong that he had suffered would be revenged on Agamemnon.
That evening Zeus sent a messenger to the Greek king to convey to him in a dream an order to rise and marshal his...
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