... palace being happy and joyful: "you halls of the kings, you roofs I cherish, sacred seats - you gods that catch the sun" The lords of the house would sit in the sacred seats and they would assert people. He is joyful that the familiar things are still there: "Gods that catch the Sun" These things ... brings down the wrath of the fates: "The fury makes the Trojans pay" When Troy approaches her end, the men feel that they were "born for bloody slaughter". In the next two stanza's Helen is likened to a lion cub who has been snatched from the wild and reared as a domestic pet. At first this...

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... to take place (2.35-36). Secondly, Agamemnon was selfish. To Chryses, Agamemnon said "The girl I will not give back; sooner will old age come upon her in my own house, in Argos, far from her own land, going up and down by loom and being in my bed as my companion" (1.29-31). To Achilles and the rest of ... -120). Even when his people were being killed by Apollo, Agamemnon still held onto his prize. Not only was he unwilling to give his own prize up to stop Apollo's slaughter, but he also wanted to have someone else's prize. Agamemnon could not stand losses even if it was his prize that br...

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