iggy’s Reviews > The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation > Status Update

Don’t really understand why the Ikhians were suddenly gonna sail home, i thought this was the bit where they fool the Trojans into thinking that they retreated but really they hid at a nearby island. But it’s not that so it’s Hera ordering Athena to persuade them not to sail home without getting Helen back

Odysseus is now persuading the Ikhians to stay after clobbering the blumbering Thersítês