The goddesses, Hera and Athena, join in on the Achaean side. Book 6. Hektor returns to Troy to ask the Trojan women to make a sacrifice to Athena to win her pity. He discovers Paris at home with Helen and rebukes his brother for abandoning the battlefield. Hektor takes the opportunity to visit his own home and in a moving scene, says an emotional good-bye to his wife, Andromache, and their baby, Astyanax, before returning to battle.
Book 7. Back on the battlefield, Hektor proposes a duel with one of the Achaeans. However, none of the Achaeans is brave enough to accept the Trojan heroes challenge. Nestor chides the warriors until nine of the Achaean champions volunteer to fight Hektor. Finally, Telamonian Ajax is chosen by lot and the warriors engage in a ferocious fight, but the duel ends in a draw as night falls.
Both sides agree to a truce to bury the dead, and the Achaeans build a wall and a trench to defend their ships and fortify their camp. Book 8. The battle resumes. At a council on Olympus, Zeus tells the gods that he is planning on bringing the war to an end and orders them not to interfere on either side. Book 9. The Achaean leaders hold an assembly. Agamemnon, on the verge of tears, proposes to go home, but Diomedes and Nestor dissuade him, for it is fated that Troy will eventually fall.
Agamemnon admits his mistake at having insulted Achilles and Nestor convinces him to return Briseis and offer Achilles splendid gifts in reconciliation. Achilles, putting his injured pride above all else, rejects their appeals.
Book On the way, they capture Dolon, a Trojan nobleman sent by Hektor to spy on the Achaeans. After extracting advantageous information from Dolon, they kill him. They then sneak into the Trojan camp, brutally murder Rhesos, a Trojan ally, and twelve of his warriors, and lead off their magnificent horses as spoils. Battle resumes the next morning and several prominent Achaean warriors are wounded and must leave the fighting.
Achilles watches the defeat and, troubled by the turn of events, sends Patroklos, his comrade-in-arms, to find out about the casualties, since his own wounded pride will not allow him to openly show an interest in the fate of the Achaeans. Books The battle is bloody. Agamemnon, Diomedes and Odysseus are all wounded and the Achaeans are forced to take refuge behind their wall. Hektor and the Trojans breach the wall and storm the Achaean camp.
Hera figures out what Poseidon is up to and seduces Zeus to distract his attention away from the battle. As the Achaeans rally, Hektor is wounded. Having fallen asleep, Zeus wakes up and threatens the gods to cease their assistance. Hektor returns to the battle, drives the Achaeans back to their ships, and tries to set them on fire.
Achilles warns him to do no more than rescue the ships, which are now burning, and to return once he has driven the Trojans away. The Trojans are driven back and Patroklos kills many of them including, Sarpedon, a mortal son of Zeus. Hera persuades Zeus not to intervene to save him. Patroklos ignores Achilles' warning and pursues Hektor all the way to the walls of Troy where he is finally slain by Hektor, with the aid of Apollo. A battle immediately develops between the two sides over Patroklos' naked corpse.
When they got to the city walls, Hector tried to reason with his pursuer, but Achilles was not interested. He stabbed Hector in the throat, killing him. Hector had begged for an honorable burial in Troy, but Achilles was determined to humiliate his enemy even in death.
In his Iliad, Homer does not explain what happened to Achilles. Paris, who was not a brave warrior, ambushed Achilles as he entered Troy. Achilles died on the spot, still undefeated in battle.
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The Academy he When he murders his half-brother, his father exiles him to Pithia where he is purified for the murder and marries the daughter of a king. Peleus eventually becomes King of Pithia. Later, during a boar hunt, he accidentally kills someone of importance and is banished again. In this new land, he rejects the advances of a married woman, Asytrdameia; she sends a letter to his wife in Pithia and tells her that Peleus is in love with another woman.
Heartbroken, Peleus' wife hangs herself. Zeus intervenes in the life of Peleus and arranges the wedding of Peleus to Thetis, the lovely sea-goddess. Zeus loves this goddess himself, but fears the prophecy that a son born from a marriage to Thetis would be more powerful than he is the secret of Thetis which Prometheus knows. The marriage of Thetis to a mortal man assures that the son would be mortal, and therefore of no threat to Zeus' sovereignty.
Zeus doesn't want anything to go wrong during the marriage ceremony; therefore, he refuses to invite Eris--the personification of strife and dissonance--to the wedding. She of course shows up anyway, according to her nature, and rolls an apple, "the apple of discord," into the wedding party.
Three goddesses--Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite--see the words "for the fairest" inscribed on the apple skin. These divine women each desire this prize; Zeus throws the apple out of Olympus and Paris, wandering on the plains of Troy, picks it up. When he reads the words "for the fairest," the three goddesses appear.
Paris must choose one of the three and his judgment leads to the Trojan War--Aphrodite wins the contest and in exchange Paris gets the love of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, wife to Greek King Menelaus, brother of Agamemnon. Some say that Peleus and Thetis loved each other. Yet because Thetis is immortal and Peleus mortal, the marriage ends in separation, symbolizing the ongoing dissonance between divine and mortal.
Thetis is an interesting creature defined in part by her archetypal characteristics.
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