Hail! Much has gone on lately

Hail! Much has gone on lately. The Achaians trashed this town and kidnapped Chryseis and Briseis. Apollo got involved and sent a plague on the Greeks, that lasted for days. Not that I'm complaining, it sounds all right to me. Agamemnon and Achilles argue over returning the silly girls to stop the plague. But I am so glad that Zeus is on our side! He sent a dream to Agamemnon that it was a good idea to have the Achaians attack. He tells them to go on their ships, to head home after 9 years (clever trick to see who was faithful) but Odysseus stops them because Athene orders him to do so. Odysseus convinces Agamemnon to let the soldiers who want to go home leave and let the ones that want to fight, stay. The best part of the situation is that Iris disguised herself as me, and convinced my people to keep fighting.I felt that we were so close to being done with this big mess! But thank the gods that the Greeks can't get over my mighty walls!!

What still amazes me, is that this has all started with Helen. She is beautiful, and I treat her kindly but I am aghast that one woman is the cause of this. From what I have seen, Odysseus and Nestor prove to be invaluable to the Greeks, which is starting to make me worried. Odysseus is very persuasive and Nestor convinces Agamemnon to let friends fight beside each other so that they would fight harder to be successful. Genius, really. If it hadn't been for Odysseus, the Achaians would have been heading home, showing how little loyalty they feel towards Agamemnon. I think that the quote below sums up quite nicely what will happen to us by the end of the war, even when I didn't know it yet.


" Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls of heroes..."

Lattimore, Richard. "The Iliad of Homer." Lines 1-4. Book 1. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011. Print.

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