Achilles
finally receives his new armor and is desperate to go to battle. Focus is on
the Greek camp and what they will do once Achilles states that he is ready for
battle. Achilles and Agamemnon make amends and its seems that the Greek leaders
are all coming together once again. I don’t really like the sight of this. It
was much better for the Trojans when the Greeks were all disorganized and
fighting. I’m not sure what a united front will do to this war. The Greeks apologize
and Agamemnon offers Achilles all the gifts he promised him in the past.
Achilles shows no interest in this. He doesn’t care about material objects; all
he wants is to fight. None of the leaders are prepared for battle. They haven’t
even eaten yet. Achilles again doesn’t care;
he states that he won’t eat or drink until he avenges Patroklos’ death.
Achilles just sits there while the Greeks eat. Hopefully this will allow
Achilles to simmer down a little before battle. Although I did see Athena and
Zeus fill up Achilles stomach with nectar and ambrosia. That is the food of the
Gods! Achilles shouldn’t get that. This will clearly give him an advantage.
That food is not meant for them! The only thing that occurs before battle that
gives me any sort of peace is Achilles horses telling Achilles his death is
near. Hopefully his death comes sooner rather than later. After that premonition
from the horse’s attention focuses back on Mt. Olympus. Zeus calls all the Gods
and Goddesses to his attention and finally gives us all permission to help in
the war. Now I can help my Trojans against the wrath of Achilles. The battle
begins with all of the Gods and Goddesses helping. Achilles goes to challenge
Aineias. Poseidon actually removes Aineias from the fight before I even had a
chance to intervene. So he was saved, thankfully. The fight moves on and Hektor
and Achilles almost meet in battle. I encouraged Hektor to wait. Their time
will come. Thankfully, Hektor actually listened to me. They almost met in
battle one more time but again I stepped in. I hid Hektor in smoke and moved
him away from Achilles. Achilles continues killing a lot of people, but at
least Hektor is safe for now.
The war
is in utter chaos now. Gods are interfering left and right. Achilles is being
treated like a God by being fed nectar and ambrosia and no one can seem to stop
his terror, just possibly post pone some of the inevitable deaths. Obviously
any God was going to prevent the death of Aineias. He is destined to survive
this war and go on to found the great city of Rome. Any God would have stopped
that fight. Although that fight was stopped I’m not sure how much longer even
the Gods can hold back Achilles. He is starting to seem inhuman. We know that
he is fated to die but when? Once all the Trojans have been killed by his hand?
Hektor is however listening to my suggestions which shows improvement. However,
I believe that all the deaths of Trojans around him, friends and family, is
filling him with a rage that will lead to stupid mistakes.
For
more information on Aineias click on the following link. Here you will learn
about his adventures after the Trojan War and why he was destined to live
through the battle with Achilles.
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