Iliad: The Rousing of Achilles by Alfred J. Church
- Powerful descriptions
- capitalize word to emphasize a point
- Body is being dragged away by the enemy...Ajax comes forward and shield the body: "Greater Ajax came forward, and put his big shield before it. As a lioness stands before its cubs and will not suffer the hunter to take them, so did Ajax stand before the body of Patroclus and defend it from the Trojans. And Hector drew back when he saw him."
- Hector is essentially told he didn't fight like a man and that due to his inability to fight, others will not assist them in battle
- Zeus is watching from above, we get a bit of the story from his perspective
- Achilles still doesn't know that Patroclus is dead and the war is being fought harder over his body
- Achilles weeps and his mother, Thetis, comes from the depth of the sea and asks why he is crying
- goes back to Zeus earlier remark that once he has nodded his head that the good or bad cannot be changed and now Achilles suffers
- Achilles answered: "All that you asked from Zeus, and that he promised to do, he has done: but what is the good? The man whom I loved above all others is dead, and Hector has my arms, for Patroclus was wearing them. As for me, I do not wish to live except to avenge myself upon him."
Pulled from the story "The Rousing of Achilles"
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