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The Iliad of Homer. Books XIII-XXIV (Volume 2)

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"The people took the bones, enwrapped them with

Soft purple robes, and laid them down within

A golden urn, to place it in a hollow

Kist of stone, and cover it above

With close-set rocks and earth to make a mound.

...When they had raised the mound

Of earth above the grave, they went back to

The city and assembled for a splendid

Banquet in the hall of Prìamos.

Thus were the funeral rites completed for

Illustrious Hékt?r, the horsetamer."

When the humiliated Akhilleús withdrew from battle, the Akhaians were on the verge of being defeated by the Trojans. However, in this second volume, when Pátroklos, Akhilleús' beloved comrade, dies in battle, Akhilleús is enraged. Dressed in a divine panoply, he returns to the fray, defeats the Trojans, and slays their champion Hékt?r, desecrating the corpse of his opponent so outrageously that the Gods are outraged. They arrange for King Prìamos to be escorted across the battle lines to Akhilleús' abode. There, touched by the old man's grief and courage, Akhilleús breaks down and achieves redemption by returning Hékt?r's corpse to Troy for honorable burial. The Iliad ends with Hékt?r's funeral rites.

This volume ends with Notes for Books XIII-XXIV, and Glossaries describing the characters and the gods.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781527554405
Publication date: 1st September 2020
Author: Homer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 750 pages
Genres: Translation and interpretation
Poetry by individual poets
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval