Iliad Book Nineteen
Akhilleus Rejoins the Battle
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Beschreibung des Verlags
This is a translation of the nineteenth book of Homer’s Iliad, continuing
the sequence of books already available.
Though this is one of the shorter books of the poem, it has a number of
interesting points, not least of which is that we are spared further
blood-letting until Akhilleus returns to the battle in the next book. The
major incidents in the book are the delivery by Thetis of Akhilleus’s new
armour, and the subsequent reconciliation of Agamemnon and Akhilleus
as the former delivers the range of gifts promised the day before.
One notable aspect of the transfer of gifts is the adroit way Odysseus
prompts Agamemnon to swear he has not laid a hand on Briseis, the
beautiful slave-girl awarded to Akhilleus as a war-prize, and confiscated
by Agamemnon in an act of extreme stupidity.