The Wrath of Achilles

The war is ten years old when the poem begins. Its decisive crisis is not strategy but honour.

Events

• Apollo Sends the Plague
• Achilles and Agamemnon Quarrel
• Achilles Withdraws
• The Embassy to Achilles
• Patroclus Asks to Enter Battle
• Patroclus Enters Battle
• Death of Patroclus
• Achilles Mourns
• Thetis Obtains New Armour
• Achilles Returns to Battle
• Death of Hector
• Priam Ransoms Hector's Body