Agamemnon treated him like ‘a refugee witout honor’ ( atimeton metanasten). He repeats how the woman Briseis was stolen from him by Agamemnon, a woman he won by his own actions. Homer says that Patroclus said this foolishly, sealing his own fate and death.Īchilles says that he doesn’t stay out of battle because of an oracle or a message of Zeus’ from his mother, but because Agamemnon robbed him, even though he was his equal. If he won’t go, he should at least send Patroclus out in his armor with the Myrmidons (troops of Achilles, “ant people”), to be a light to the Argives. How will anyone in the future benefit from him, if he won’t help the Achaeans? Because his mind is unbending, it is clear that he was not born from Peleus and Thetis, but from the sea and the rocks. He cries and is angry at Achilles and his wrath ( cholos) and his ‘virtue that harms’ ( ainarete).
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