![]() ![]() The time of two-and-twenty days is taken up in this book: nine during the plague, one in the council and quarrel of the princes, and twelve for Jupiter’s stay with the Ethiopians, at whose return Thetis prefers her petition. Jupiter, granting her suit, incenses Juno: between whom the debate runs high, till they are reconciled by the address of Vulcan. ![]() Achilles in discontent withdraws himself and his forces from the rest of the Greeks and complaining to Thetis, she supplicates Jupiter to render them sensible of the wrong done to her son, by giving victory to the Trojans. The king, being obliged to send back his captive, enters into a furious contest with Achilles, which Nestor pacifies however, as he had the absolute command of the army, he seizes on Briseis in revenge. ![]() Achilles calls a council, and encourages Chalcas to declare the cause of it who attributes it to the refusal of Chryseis. The priest being refused, and insolently dismissed by Agamemnon, entreats for vengeance from his god who inflicts a pestilence on the Greeks. Chryses, the father of Chryseis, and priest of Apollo, comes to the Grecian camp to ransom her with which the action of the poem opens, in the tenth year of the siege. ![]() In the war of Troy, the Greeks having sacked some of the neighbouring towns, and taken from thence two beautiful captives, Chryseis and Briseis, allotted the first to Agamemnon, and the last to Achilles. Argument The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon ![]()
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