The Ilad

Title: The Ilad
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 986 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Ilad

Plot (Synopsis): In the tenth year of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, Chryses, a priest of Apollo, comes to the Greek camp to ask for the return of his daughter Chryseis. She had been captured during a raid and given as a prize to Agamemnon. When Agamemnon refuses to return the girl, Chryses begs Apollo to punish the Greeks. The result is that a plague is sent upon them. A few days …showed first 75 words of 986 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 986 total…hut in the Greek camp, and in King Priam's palace. The period spanned in the poem is roughly forty-seven days in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. Book I covers twenty days. Books II - VII cover two days. Books VIII - X deal with the events of one day. Books XI -XVIII cover one full day. Books XIX - XXII cover events of another day. Books XXIII – XXIV roughly cover events of twenty-two days.

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