Book One of the poem opens nine years after the start of the Trojan War. The poem goes on to speak of the Achaean soldiers that caught two Trojan maidens, Chrysei and Briseis, the two maidens that would later be the destruction of a country. The two girls are then given out as rewards of battle, Chrysei?s to the king of Achaens, Agamemnon and Briseis is awarded to Achilles the great warrior. The two girls? families are devostated and Chryseis? father, Chryses, priest of Apollo, begs Agamemnon to return his daughter. Sons of Atreus and you other strong-greaved Achains, to you ma

y the gods grant who have their homes on Olympos Priam?s city to be plundered and fair homecoming thereafter, but may you give me back my own daughter and take the ransom, giving honor to Azeus? son who strikes form afar, Apollo. (Il.1.17-21) However A00gamemnon continues to refuse him and so Chryses prays to the great god Apollo to have his daughter returned.

Achilles then prays to his mother Thetis, god of the Sea, that Agamemnon and the Achaean?s continue to be defeated as long as Achilles does not fight. Thetis then talks to Zeus who in turn agrees to help the Trojans win the war. So while Achilles is fighting the Achaean?s are being vastly defeated. It is around the time when Agamemnon is about to give up, that the Achaean warrior Nestor tells Agamemnon that the problem does not lie in the Achaean skill but that they are without Achilles, their mightiest warrior. Therefore Agamemnon sends word to Achilles and offers him riches, property, horses, many great gifts, and even Briseis UNTOUCHED his faithful maiden, if he is to r

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Il117-21 A00gamemnon, Phoibos Apollo, Nine Iliad, Agamemnon Achaean, Agamemnon Achilles, Agamemnon Achaeans, Agamemnon Briseis, Olympos Priams, Briseis UNTOUCHED, Agamemnon Athena, mightiest warrior, won battle, forgive agamemnon, return chryseis, agamemnon return,