The plan goes off the rails, however, when Hektor kills Patroklos-with the help of the god Apollo and a minor Trojan warrior named Euphorbos.
Patroklos's gambit is successful -when the Trojans see him, they think he must be Achilleus and become absolutely terrified. Achilleus grants Patroklos's request, and even lets him wear his armor. Several days of violent fighting follow, at the end of which the Trojans have the Achaians pinned against the beach, and are threatening to burn their ships.Īt this point, Achilleus's best friend Patroklos asks for permission to go into battle in Achilleus's place. Sure enough, the next day the Trojans make a successful counterattack, led by Hektor, their greatest warrior. She gets Zeus, the king of the gods, to agree to Achilleus's request. That and he prays to his mother, Thetis, who happens to be a goddess, to pull some strings with the other gods so that the Achaians will start getting defeated in battle and realize how much they depend on him. Even though Achilleus gives her up, he becomes so enraged that he refuses to fight any more. Agamemnon eventually agrees, but only if he gets to take Briseis, the girlfriend of Achilleus, the greatest warrior of the Achaians. After nine days of plague, the Achaians assemble again and demand that Agamemnon give the girl back. When Agamemnon refuses, the priest prays to the god Apollo to send a plague against the Achaians. First, the priest Chryses comes to ask their leader, King Agamemnon, to release his daughter, whom Agamemnon was holding captive. In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions are running high among the Achaians (a super-ancient name for the Ancient Greeks).
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