Blog 5

Hello!

 The Achaeans have been begging Achilles to get back in battle, but he keeps refusing. I heard one of the offers that Agamemnon offered was his own daughter. Which is like Agamemnon saying, "you can be my son-in-law, meaning you agree that you are lesser of me". I understand why he wouldn't take the offer, because I wouldn't either. Hector is curious whether or not the Greeks are going to give up and leave, so he finds Dolon to serve as his spy. Dolon was soon killed by Diomedes who turned out to be a spy for the Achaeans. The Achaeans start killing off more of our soldiers, moving us back to our city wall. Hector said that Iris told him not to fight back until Agamemnon gets wounded. When Agamemnon does get wounded Hector starts fighting off the Achaeans, moving them back. Diomedes launches his spear at Hector's helmet, and in turn I wound him with my arrow! At one point Odysseus was fighting off several of us, and finally got wounded by Socus. Before we could enforce more damage to Odysseus, he was carried away by Aias. Hector, even after almost getting killed, is still kicking butt! I decide I should go help him, since there is multiple of them and only one of him, so I go over there and wound Machaeon, the Achaeans healer. Apparently we are doing well because they are begging Achilles' friend, Patroclus, to persuade Achilles to rejoin the battle.

In book 9 Achilles got offered gifts in return for his presence in the battle. One gift, as I explained above, was his brother's daughter. The reason Agamemnon offered Achilles that, is so he would have more timé than Achilles, and when he dies, have people singing about his Kleos. At this point Achilles only wants to leave and go back and have a different destiny than what was chosen for him, so no form of gifts would make him stay, especially because he would never see the gifts until he died.


Until Next Time...
Paris