![]() ![]() ![]() Chryses, a priest of Apollo from the sacked city, approaches the Achaean camp and asks Agamemnon, the leader of the Achaeans, to release his daughter, who is one of the captives, from slavery. The Achaeans have recently sacked a nearby city, taking several beautiful women captive along with a lot of treasure. The Achaeans raised a massive army and sailed to Troy, bent on winning Helen back by force.Īs the story begins, the war is in its ninth year. The conflict began when Paris, the son of Troy’s king Priam, seized a willing Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, from the Achaean king Menelaus. ![]() The Iliad recounts a brief but crucial period of the Trojan War, a conflict between the city of Troy and its allies against a confederation of Greek cities, collectively known as the Achaeans. ![]()
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