To achieve this, a dream is sent to Agamemnon, who becomes convinced that he will win a victory. The gods have decided to honor Achilles: the Greeks will feel that their best fighter is absent. Thus begins the story of the wrath of Achilles. The great warrior feels insulted and decides not to fight any longer. Agamemnon is now convinced that he acted wrongly, returns the girl, and demands Briseis from Achilles. When the Greek supreme commander Agamemnon refuses, Chryses invokes his god, who answers this prayer and strikes the Greeks with plague. Chryseis is the daughter of Chryses, the priest of Apollo Smintheus he wants to buy his daughter - taken captive by the Greeks who are besieging Troy - back.
ContentsĪ quarrel about the two girls mentioned at the end of the Cypria marks the beginning of Homer's great epic. The Iliad was represented on works of art, found in Bactria, Egypt, or Germania Inferior. Appian of Alexandria tells that when Scipio Aemilianus destroyed Carthage, he quoted a line from the Iliad ("the day shall come in which our sacred Troy shall perish", 6.448-449 Punic War, 132).
Poets like Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil wrote imitations.
Reportedly, Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad under his pillow ( text), and if we find it hard to believe that story, it remains a testimony to the importance of the text that the ancients found it credible. The story, an episode from the Trojan War, was well-known to any Greek or Roman, and had a status almost comparable to a sacred book. The Iliad is the sixth epic of the Epic Cycle it is attributed to the legendary bard Homer. Iliad: Homer's famous epic about the wrath of Achilles, the main poem of the Epic Cycle, and the beginning of Greek literature.
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