Agamemnon repeatshis threat to take Achilleus' prize, and Achilleus is about to draw his swordwhen Athene appears to him and stops him. Agamemnon agrees to give upChryseis, who is his concubine, but demands some other "prize" to replace her.Achilleus answers that another prize will come later, when Troy is sacked.Agamemnon angrily threatens to take the captive woman of Achilleus or ofanother of the Achaian chiefs, and Achilleus responds to this slight bydenouncing Agamemnon and threatening to go home to Phthia. First Kalchas securesAchilleus' promise that he will protect him from reprisals, then he explainsthe situation. Achilleus calls anassembly to ask the seer Kalchas why Apollo is angry. Apollo's priest Chryses comes to the Achaiancamp and asks to ransom back his daughter Chryseis, who has been captured.Agamemnon sends him rudely away, and Chryses prays to Apollo to punish theGreeks, which Apollo does by sending a plague upon them. The Iliad begins with the poet calling on the Muse to sing of the wrathof Achilleus and its consequences. Outline of Homer's Iliad Outline of Homer's Iliad
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