The Ili-advent Calendar continues, with our apologies for the delay.
For Iliad 4, we start -- for well begun is half done (to paraphrase Hesiod, Works and Days line 40) -- with the divine actors.
For Iliad 4, we start -- for well begun is half done (to paraphrase Hesiod, Works and Days line 40) -- with the divine actors.
ZEUS - wants to consider what to do next.
He wants to “make peace between the two sides”. Perhaps, he wants Ilium's survival and Menelaus to take Helen back. He then reaches a compromise with Hera, but he will destroy a town she loves in return.
HERA - is annoyed with Zeus and, because of the troubles that she went through, she “gathered the army to make trouble for Priam”. She then makes a reference to the past as a warning to Zeus.
ATHENA - disguised herself and snuck in among the Trojans and Greek troops. Then, she persuades Pandarus to shoot Menelaus to gain glory.
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