Plot (Synopsis): In the tenth year of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, Chryses, a priest of Apollo, comes to the Greek camp to ask for the return of his daughter Chryseis. She had been captured during a raid and given as a prize to Agamemnon. When Agamemnon refuses to return the girl, Chryses begs Apollo to punish the Greeks. The result is that a plague is sent upon them. A few days …showed first 75 words of 983 total…

…showed last 75 words of 983 total…Greek camp, and in King Priam's palace. The period spanned in the poem is roughly forty-seven days in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. Book I covers twenty days. Books II - VII cover two days. Books VIII - X deal with the events of one day. Books XI -XVIII cover one full day. Books XIX - XXII cover events of another day. Books XXIII – XXIV roughly cover events of twenty-two days.