Hey everyone out there. Hope I didn't keep you waiting too long since my last post. That was somewhere around 3 hours ago. Reading late at night doesn't agree with me. Or maybe "The Iliad" just isn't as exciting as I would like it to be.
I'll say this though: This book is very frustrating. Will the gods ever stop interfering?! But, of course, I am a little biased. I don't have much of a problem when the gods help the Trojans. I always liked the Trojans. They just lived with no one really noticing them until Alexandros decided to steal himself a bride from the brother of the king of the Greeks. He didn't really think that one out now did he. Onto the story.
Like I remarked earlier, it's frustrating how the gods keep interfering. The title of this chapter, The Turning of the "Tides", alludes to Poseidon being the god who interferes this time. You get it? "Tides"= Poseidon because he's the god of the Sea. Oh well. They can't all be winners.
In a nut shell, the Achaians start fighting back. (FYI: From here on out, I'm going to refer to Agamemnon's men as the Greeks. I'm reading the book and finding that there are other Greek tribes. Achaians are just one of the tribes. So it's Greeks from here on out.)
Time to continue. The Greeks are fighting back. And they're doing a pretty darn good job too. The Trojans are passingly revealed by an enemy Greek to be unexperienced fighters- just slashing in anger mostly. I can't really says that's the truth. It might have just been an insult from the Greeks. But not every can be a great warrior.
The chapter closes with the two opposing armies reading to make another charge at each other. Sadly, I don't see Achilles coming back into the fight for another 3-5 chapters. That's all for tonight. At least it's night where I am- That's all for today/ this afternoon/this morning for everybody else. Much <3. (See?! I made a heart.) Peace.
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