Status Updates From THE ILIAD

‘“...There is no shame in fleeing from disaster, even by night. You see, when things go wrong, escape is better than captivity.”

Odysseus, the master strategist, scowled as he answered him. “Lord Agamemnon, what have you said? What words have now escaped out of your mouth and past your fence of teeth? Curse you! I wish you led some other army, a low, dishonorable one, not ours....”’

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“His father, noble Polyidus, had often said that he would either waste away at home and die of painful illness, or sail off, joining the other Greeks who went to Troy, and there be killed. So he chose not to suffer the cruel sickness, which would hurt his heart, and not to have to pay the Greeks’ steep fine. But Paris struck him underneath his ear, below the jaw, and then immediately life left his limbs...”

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(Book 2) Agamemnon receives a deceptive dream from Zeus ordering him to attack, an insubordinate, Thersites, lashes out at his commanders and is then beaten by Odysseus with a staff. Vast description of commanders and forces of Achaeans as well as Troy. Odysseus provides a powerful motivating speech and rallies the forces, preparing them to attack a Trojan city, while the Trojans head out to meet the oncoming attack.