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The Iliad
Title: The Iliad
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1323 | Pages: 5.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Iliad
Aaron Rorabaugh Rorabaugh 1
Mrs. Kasehagen
Pre-AP English
2/1/01
The Iliad
The scene opens on the last year of the Trojan war. The war had raged for
ten years, with the invading Greeks fighting against Troy. Apollo has sent a plague
to the Greeks because Agamemnon, king and leader of the Greeks, dishonored a
daughter of Apollo's priest. When the reason for the plague is discovered,
Agamemnon becomes angry and defiant, unhappy to give the daughter back …showed first 75 words of 1323 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1323 total…Hector.
Zeus decrees that Priam will be allowed to have Hector's body. Zeus sends
Hermes with Priam, and they enter the Greek camp. Priam begs for Hector's body
back at the feet of Achilles. Achilles weeps with Priam, and grants his request.
Achilles also grants Priam a truce to properly mourn his son. The city of Troy
mourns Hector for 9 days, and then they have a meal, and burn his body on a
funeral pyre.
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