Achaean council

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Also: camp, sterns and decks, Greek lines

Stories (11)

Astyanax: Death Variants (Neoptolemus vs. Odysseus)
Trojan — Sack / Hector’s heir · Cyclic / Apollodorean / tragic — killer variants isolated
Poseidon Rallies the Greeks (*Iliad* 13)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 · Homeric — Poseidon’s covert aid against Zeus’s will
Hera’s Deception of Zeus on Ida (Dios Apate, *Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 14 · Homeric — Dios apate (the Deception of Zeus)
Patroclus Arms in Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 16 · Homeric — arming and Achilles’ charge isolated from Patroclus’s death
Rhesus and the Thracian Horses (*Iliad* 10)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Rhesus slain in his sleep; white horses taken
Hector Fires the Achaean Ships (*Iliad* 15–16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ships crisis · Homeric — fire at Protesilaus’s hull; climax of Zeus’s promise to Thetis
Ajax Carries Achilles’ Body from the Fight (*Aethiopis*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* / death of Achilles aftermath · Cyclic — Ajax bears the corpse while Odysseus covers the retreat
Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall
Polydamas Advises Hector (*Iliad* 12 and 18)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Trojan counsel vs. Hector’s force · Homeric — bird-omen counsel at the ditch; night counsel after Achilles’ return
Imbrius Son of Mentor Slain
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fighting at the ships · Homeric — Pedaean husband of Priam’s bastard daughter Medesicaste; Teucer kills him; Hector avenges
Stentor of the Bronze Voice
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / divine disguise on the battlefield · Homeric — Hera (or Athena) takes Stentor’s form; voice of fifty men

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Achaean council

Stories (11)

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