This
is the part of the story where the battle is in total chaos when Hektor and Paris finally returned. Hektor totally went up to the Achaean war line and challenged anyone who will
fight him. Menelaus comes forward but is
stopped by Agamemnon, who tells him that he is mad to want to fight, which is kinda rude in my opinion. Then the old man Nestor, who had considered fighting Hektor
but decided against it cause he had totally done his share in fighting in war a long time ago, called nine of his "bravest" men to fight. Nestor then took all the dudes' names, dumped
their names in a helmet, and took out the name Aias, who was a son of King
Telamon.
Hektor
and Aias threw pointy spears at each other, but were immediately stopped by the heralds of Zeus
because it was totally dark cause it was night and the men had fought enough for the day and
deserved to sleep and eat. So Hektor and
Aias agreed on continuing the fight the next day, and they were so nice because they gave each other gifts as a
sign of total agreement. Hector gave Aias a
sword with its holder thing and belt, and Aias gave Hektor a war
belt so I think it was a fair trade.
After
everyone went back to their tents or whatever, Nestor told the Achaeans to build a wall for protection from
the Trojans and to take
the next day to bury their dead cause those bodies were just rotting out there and who wants to deal with walking over heads and legs while trying to fight? Plus I guess they wanted to honor their comrades who helped in the war. When it was finally light out, Idaios went to the Acheans to request
the day to bury their dead, promising that Paris would return all of his stolen
stuff EXCEPT for the Helen. This
promise was shut down by Diomedes who said that the Achaeans would not take this
pitiful promise, and the men separated and went back to their camps. Each group gathered their dead, pilled them
all up high and then burned their bodies because no one could tell who was who amongst the
blood and guts.
After
the Acheans’ wall was finished, the men made sacrifices to the gods and had
their supper and la-de-dah. The big Z looked down on the
men, knowing that their wall would be destroyed once the Trojans invade the
city, which whoo! go Trojans!
The
next day after the stench of burned skin was gone, Zeus spoke to the other gods and told them to not help with
the war. This is because the big Z knew that the Trojans
would win that day, but Hera of course joins in the war by convincing Agamemnon to cheer
on his warriors and to pray to Zeus for like a chance to basically beat the Trojans. Zeus agreed and then sent a bird into the
battle, which is clearly a sign that the Greeks will not perish that day. One of the Greeks, another minor dude named
Teukros, killed so many Trojans with his bow and arrows that day, but no matter how hard he
tried he could just not hit Hektor. Hektor totally saw that and he hit Teukros, hurting him pretty badly. Thankfully, the Trojans are once again
defeating the Greeks and this is when the gods
decided to interfere with the war even though the big Z told them not
to. Hera and Athene decided to drive a chariot into
the battle but are stopped when Zeus threatened to hit their chariot with a
thunderbolt which is Zeus clearly showing his
power over the two goddesses, and like all of us so all the gods returned to Olympus.
At
last the two groups decided to call it quits for the night and go to bed.
Hektor decided that the Trojans should camp outside of the Achaeans’
camp so that when they wake up the next morning they would be ready for war. On the Achaean side, Agamemnon begded the
Greeks to just give up and basically just go home.
Nestor, who was a totally wise dude, suggested that Agamemnon simply give back to
Achilles what was they wanted.
Agamemnon then goes on for what seems like an eternity, listing off
everything he would give to Achilles including Briseis. The Greeks decided to send Odysseus, Phoinix,
and Aias to talk to Achilles about this new plan. When they
finally got to Achilles, he was playing a small guitar thing and singing stories of past great
warriors. The men each went up to him and
told him what Agamemnon had offered so that he would just come back and help them fight.
Each man was shut down by Achilles, even the adorable Phoinix who told Achilles the story
of this dude Meleagros who was a warrior who refused to fight. Achilles told them that he was still hurt by
Agamemnon and would still not help the Greeks until they are basically defeated. The men gave up and returned to their camp,
totally bummed and sad. Diomedes gathered the army, and promised they will still fight and win even without the awesome Achilles.
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