Illiad Book One was very interesting and also confusing. I felt like there were so many things going on. I’ll be honest and say I had to go online and read the summary in order to fully understand it. There were many characters and it was helpful to read about them and understand their part in the story.

People think ten years is a long time to be fighting just over a girl, but it lasted that long because of each side’s stubbornness. It’s about power, pride, and possession. Achilles can’t stand it when his pride gets attacked and the same goes for Agamemnon. In book one, Agamemnon was being stubborn because he kidnapped the priest’s daughter and refuses to give her back to her father. He refers to her as his rightful war prize. The priest prays to Apollo and he sends a plague upon the Greek camp and this result in deaths of many soldiers. Agamemnon was blamed for this plague but he still refused to give back the priest’s daughter until Achilles gives him Briseis as exchange. Being two stubborn powerful people, you can imagine how this goes.

I am looking forward to finishing this whole book and seeing the end results.