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The Plague Of Agamemnon

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Agamemnon was not the noblest of kings as he cared very little when the problem was directly linked to him. It took ten days to call an assembly but it was not Agamemnon who called the greeks, it was Achilles. “Nine days the god’s arrows rained death on the camp. On the tenth day, Achilles called an assembly. Hera, the white-armed goddess, planted the thought in him Because she cared for the Greeks and it pained her To see them dying.” Though no one knew of the cause of the plague was because Agamemnon did not want to return Chryseis the daughter of the priest of Apollo Chryses who called upon the wrath of the god Apollo. When it was revealed the reason why this “plague” is being brought upon them the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon

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