Havell opens with an explanation of the Iliad’s design around the wrath of Achilles, then retells the poem episode by episode: the quarrel with Agamemnon, the muster of the Greeks, the duel of Paris and Menelaus, Diomede’s exploits, Hector’s farewell to Andromache, the embassy to Achilles and the battles that follow.
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