Achilles
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1. Front matter2. Translator’s Preface3. Illustrations4. Chapter I The Greeks March against Troy—Agamemnon Quarrels with Achilles5. Chapter II Thetis Promises to Aid the Angry Achilles and Begs Jupiter’s Assistance—Juno is Angry—Agamemnon and the Other Princes Summon the Greeks to Battle6. Chapter III Meeting of the Armies—Menelaus and Paris—Agamemnon Leads the Greeks into Battle7. Chapter IV Continuation of the Battle—The Gods Take Part8. Chapter V The Greeks are Successful—Hector Hastens to the City—Glaucus and Diomedes, Hector and Andromache9. Chapter VI Hector and Ajax in Single Combat—A Truce—Another Battle at the Ships10. Chapter VII Agamemnon Advises Flight—Council of the Princes—A Deputation is Sent to Achilles11. Chapter VIII Agamemnon in Battle—Many of the Greeks are Wounded12. Chapter IX Agamemnon Consoled—The Gods Take Part in the Strife and the Trojans are Driven Back13. Chapter X Jupiter’s Message to Poseidon—The Battle for the Ships14. Chapter XI Patroclus Hastens into Battle and Scatters the Trojans—Hector and Patroclus15. Chapter XII The Fight for Patroclus’ Body—Achilles Mourns for His Fallen Friend—Thetis and Vulcan—Achilles’ Shield16. Chapter XIII Achilles and Agamemnon Reconciled—Achilles Goes into Battle17. Chapter XIV Achilles in Battle—The Fight on the River18. Chapter XV Hector and Achilles—Hector’s Death19. Chapter XVI Priam and Achilles—Hector’s Burial in Troy20. Transcriber’s Notes