[Frontispiece: "Athene shot down from Olympus like a falling star" (Patten Wilson)] STORIES FROM THE ILIAD RETOLD BY H. L. HAVELL B.A. AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM HERODOTUS" "STORIES FROM GREEK TRAGEDY" "STORIES FROM THE ÆNEID" "STORIES FROM THE ODYSSEY" "STORIES FROM DON QUIXOTE" "STORIES FROM THUCYDIDES" "STORIES FROM XENOPHON" "_A nation without fancy, without some romance, never did never can, never will, hold a great place under the sun.... What enchanted us in our childhood, and is captivating a million of young fancies now, has, at the same blessed time of life, enchanted vast hosts of men and women who have done their long day's work and laid their grey heads down to rest._" CHARLES DICKENS GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD. LONDON BOMBAY SYDNEY First published February 1908 by GEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY 39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2 Reprinted: August 1908; February 1909; May 1910; July 1913; July 1916; July 1917; August 1919; April 1922; April 1924; March 1926; April 1928; November 1929 Printed in Great Britain by The Riverside Press Limited Edinburgh CONTENTS Introduction-- I. The Story II. The Divine Characters III. The Human Characters IV. The Similes The Quarrel The Dream: The Muster of Greeks Greeks and Trojans Face to Face: The Duel The Breaking of the Truce The Exploits of Diomede The Battle continued: Hector and Andromache Second Battle: Repulse of the Greeks The Embassy to Achilles The Night Raid on the Trojan Camp The Brave Deeds of Agamemnon: Reverses of the Greeks The Attack on the Grecian Camp Poseidon aids the Greeks Zeus is Beguiled by Hera The Last Battle by the Ships Achilles sends Patroclus to Battle The Fight for the Body of Patroclus The News is brought to Achilles The Shield of Achilles The Reconciliation Achilles in the Battlefield The Death of Hector The Funeral Games of Patroclus Priam Ransoms the Body of Hector Pronouncing List of Names ILLUSTRATIONS "Athene shot down from Olympus like a falling star" (_Patten Wilson_) _Frontispiece_ The Leaders of the Greeks (_Christian G. Heyne_) Paris (_Vatican, Rome_) Helen on the Walls of Troy (_Lord Leighton_) Hector's Farewell (_Friedrich Preller, Jr._) Menelaus (_Vatican, Rome_) Homer Hymning the Fall of Troy (_Baron H. de Triqueti_) Captive Andromache (_Lord Leighton_) INTRODUCTION I. THE STORY