The Iliad: Book IX

1. Achilles says he will not fight again until Hector and kills many Argives. Lines 795-798. I will not think of arming for bloody war again, not till the son of wise King Priam, dazzling Hector batters all the way to the Myrmidon shipss and shelters, slaughtering Argives, gutting the hulls with fire.
2. When he had finished talking to Odysseus. Lines 802-805. So he finished. Then each man, lifting his own two-handled cup, poured it out to the gods, and back they went along the ships, Odysseus in the lead.
3. Odysseus says Achilles is still very angery. Lines 825-829. And the steady, long-enduring Odysseus replied, "Great marshal Atrides, lord of men Agamemnon, that man has no intention of quenching his rage. He's still bursting with anger, more than ever--he spurns you, spurns all your gifts.
4. Lines 835-837. You will never set your eyes on the day of doom that topples looming Troy. Thundering Zeus has spread his hands above her.
5. Diomedes says that Agamemnon should be done with Achilles. He challanges Agamemnon to fight in the front ranks. Line 856. I say have done with the man.(Achilles). Lines 860-865. Go to sleep now, full to your heart's content with food and wine, a soldier's strenghth and nerve. Then when the Dawn's red fingers shine in all their glory, quickly deploy your chariots and battalions, Agamemnon, out in front of the ships-- you spur them on and you yourself, you fight in the front ranks.

The Iliad: Book VI: 462-end

1. Andromache's mother and father were killed. I have lost my father. Mother's gone as well.
2. Hector says he die in shame to Troy. But I would die of shame to face the men of Troy and the Trojan women trailing their long robes if I would shrink from battle now, a coward.
3. Hector wants Andromache to be free from Argive rule. That is nothing , nothing beside your agony when some brazen Argive hales you off in tears, wrenching away your day of light and freedom! Then far off in the land of Argos you must live, laboringing a a loom, at another woman's beck and call.
4. Hector's boy was scared of his helment. In the same breath, shining Hector reached down for his son--but the boy recoiled, criniging against his nurse's full breast, screaming out at the sight of his own father, terrified by the flashing bronze, the horsehair crest, the great ridge of the helmet nodding, bristling terror so it struck his eyes.
5. Paris and Hector seem like they are on the same side now, and they are fired up to defeat the Argives. We'll set all this to rights, someday, if Zeus will ever let us raise the winebowl of freedom high in our halls, hight to the gods of cloud and sky who live forever--once we drive these Argives geared for battle out of Troy!

The Iliad: Book VI: 283-337; 366-436

1. He tells the women to pray to the gods. This shows that he is worried that the gods will hurt the Trojans. And now, when Hector reached the Scaean Gates and the great oak, the wives and daughters of Troy came rushing up around him, asking about their sons, brothers, friends and husbands. But Hector only told them "Pray to the Gods"
2. 25 boys and 6 girls. And deep within its walls were fifty sleeping chambers masoned in smooth, lustrous ashlar, linked in a line where the sons of Priam slept beside their wedded wives, and facing these, opening out across the inner courtyard, lay the twelve sleeping chambers of Priam's daughters, masoned and roofed in lustrous ashlar, linked in a line where the sons-in-law of Priam slept beside their wives.
3. She offers Hector honeyed, mellow wine. He rejects this because he says it will sap his limbs, and he will lose his nerve for war. I'll bring you some honeyed, mellow wine. "Don't offer me me mellow wine, mother not now--you'd sap my limbs, I'd lose my nerve for war.
4. Hector told her to go to Athena's shrine with older noble women and to bring a nice large robe and put it on Athena's knee. He asks his mother to do this because he wants Athena to have pity on Troy. Go to Athena's shrine, the queen of plunder, go with offerings, gather the older noble women and take a robe, the largest, loveliest robe that you can find throughout the royal halls, a gift that far and away you prize most yourself, and spread it out across the sleekphaired goddess' knees. Then promise to sacrifice twelve heifers in her shrine, yearlings never broken, if only she'll pity Troy.
5. Contrast: In book III Paris and Hector were just insulting each other but in book VI, they are going to fight. So come, wait while I (Paris) get this war-gear on, or you go on ahead and I will follow-- I think I can overtake you.
6. She feels that it is not good. She says he has no steadiness in his spirit and that he never will. I wish I had been the wife of a better man, someone alive to outrage, the withering scorn of nem. This one has no steadiness in his his spirit, not now, he never will.
7. Helen says that Zeus planted a killing doom within her and Hector. Oh the two of us! Zeus planted a killing doom within us both, so even for generations still unborn we will live in song."

The Iliad: Book III: 398-end

1. Paris. Paris hurled-- his spear's long shadow flew and the shaft hit Menelaus' round shield.
2. Menelaus because Paris's spear breaks and he dragged Paris by his helment. Paris hurled-- his spear's long shadow flew and the shaft hit Menelaus' round shield, full center-- not pounding through, the brazen point bent back in the tough armor. Menelaus grabbed his horsehair crest, swung him round, started to drag him into Argive lines.
3. Aphrodite helped Paris get away from Menelaus because she snapped his helment strap and she took Paris from the battle. Aphrodite, Zeus's daughter quick to the mark, snapped the rawhide stap, cut from a bludgeoned ox, and the helment came off empty in Menelaus' fist. Aphrodite snatched Paris away, easy work for a god, wrapped him in swirls of mist and set him down in his bedroom filled with scent.
4. Helen thinks it would be wrong and disgraceful to go see Paris, and she also says that the women of Troy would scorn her. Not I, I'll never go back again. It would be wrong and disgraceful to share that coward's bed once more. The women of Troy would scorn me down the years.
5. Agamemnon tells the Trojans to surrender Helen. He feels justified to do this because Menelaus beat Paris in their battle. You must surrender Helen and all her treasures with her. At once--and pay us reparations fair and fitting, a price to inspire generations still to come.

The Iliad: Book III: 1-315

1. Paris- Lines 24-25. Paris parading there with his big loping strides, flauting before the troops. Paris seems cocky at the beggining of the Book.
2. Hector- Lines 72-75. The heart inside you is always tempered hard, like an ax that goes through wood when a shipwright cuts out ship timbers with every ounce of skill and the blade's weight drives the man's stroke. Hector seems very hardened by war.
3. Priam- Line 127. And lead on Priam too, Priam in all his power. Lines 194-195. Priam, raising his voice, called across to Helen, "Come over here dear child, sit in front of me". Priam is a very powerful king and he usually gets his way.
4. Helen- Lines 216-218. That man is Atreus' son Agamemnon, lord of empires, both a mighty king and a strong spearman too, and he used to be my kinsman, (girl in many relationships) that I am! Helen has a lot of relationships with men and is forced into many of them.

The Iliad: Book I, 470-end

1. Lines 546-550. And soon as the men had prayed and flung the barley, first they lifted back the heads of the victims, slit their throats, skinned them and carved away the meat from the thighbones and wrapped them in fat a double fold sliced clean and topped with strips of flesh.
2. #569. Homer describes dawn with rose-red fingers.
3. Zeus did nothing.
4. Because Zeus thinks that Thetis will drive him into a war with Hera.
5. He bowed his head. Lines 632-633.
6. Hera's son, Hephaestus, told her that Zeus was to powerful and he said that she needed to go back to him.
7. A Positive Note. Lines 732-735. And Olympian Zeus the lord of lightning went to his own bed where he had always lain when welcome sloop came on him. There he climbed and there he slept and by his side lay Hera the Queen, the goddess of the golden throne.

Iliad: Book 1, 334-429

1. Talthybius and Eurybates
2. Achilles doesn't argue with the men he just hands over Briseis. This tells me that he doesn't want to fight Agamemnon.
3. Achilles likes her very much because it says Achilles wept and slipped away from his companions when the men took Briseis.

Iliad, I, Line 61-240.

1. Achilles and Agamemnon disagree on ways to calm Apollo.

2. Calchas asks Achilles to defend him with all his heart.

3. Agamemnon says he wants Chryses more than his wedded wife.

4. Achilles says that all of their treasure is in the peoples hands and it would be disgraceful to collect it all. Achilles says he will pay him back in time with multiple gifts.

5. Agamemnon says that he will go to bring back Chryses in his own ship with his own ship and that he will take Briseis from Achilles when he arrives. Achilles says that he is going to go home on his ships with the scraps that he has then stay brimming Agamemnon's cup.