![]() ![]() ![]() On the tenth day of the plague, Achilles can wait no longer for King Agamemnon to act to end the plague. ![]() Consequently, Chryses prays to Apollo who brings a plague on the Achaian camp. The troops awarded these girls to Agamemnon, the commander-in-chief of the army, and to Achilles, the Achaians' greatest warrior.Ĭhryses, the father of Chryseis, pleads for her return but Agamemnon denies the plea. The reader is then carried to the point where the trouble originally arose, which is where the story of the Iliad actually begins: in the middle of war.ĭuring one of the Achaian (Greek) army's many raids on the cities located near Troy, the Achaians captured two beautiful enemy maidens, Chryseis and Briseis. In this invocation, Homer states his theme - the wrath, or the anger, of Achilles and its effects - and requests the aid of the muse so that he can properly recount the story. ![]() As was the tradition in epic poetry, the Iliad opens in medias res, meaning "in the middle of things," although the action is always preceded by the poet's invocation to the muse (the goddess) of poetry. As such the epic stands as a bridge between history and literature. Chronicling the deeds of great heroes from the past who helped form a society, the Iliad is an epic poem. ![]()
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