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The wound that a snake caused
Philoctetes
proved to be incurable, and the stench which it
produced was so difficult to endure that
Agamemnon,
the commander in chief of the army that had sailed
against Troy, decided to get rid of
Philoctetes,
putting him ashore in the island of
Lemnos, where he
survived in the wildernesss for several years.
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Philoctetes at Lemnos
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During the
Trojan War,
Aeneas was
wounded by
Diomedes 2
and, having fainted, would have died if his mother
had not come to his rescue. When on the occasion
Aphrodite
herself was wounded by
Diomedes 2,
Apollo took over
the protection of the wounded
Aeneas, removing
him from the battle to the citadel of Pergamus
where his temple stood.
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Apollo saves Aeneas
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Iris 1,
delivering a message from
Zeus, prevents
Athena and
Hera from helping
the Achaeans. So she said:
"Whither are
you twain hastening? Why is it that the hearts are
mad within your breasts? The son of
Cronos suffers not that you give succour
to the Argives. For on this wise he threatens, even
as he will bring it to pass: he will maim your
swift horses beneath your chariot, and yourselves
will he hurl from out the car, and will break in
pieces the chariot. Ten rolling years would pass,
and you be left still suffering from the wounds his
thunderbolt would deal you ..."
[Iris 1 to
Athena and
Hera. Homer,
Iliad 8.415]
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Iris
1 prevents
Athena and
Hera from helping the Achaeans
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Hector 1
leaves for battle. It is then his wife
Andromache
tells him:
"You,
Hector, are father and mother and brother
to me, as well as my beloved husband. Have pity on
me now; stay here in the city, and do not make your
boy an orphan and your wife a widow."
[Andromache
to Hector 1.
Homer, Iliad 6.430]
Hector 1
addresses then a vain prayer to the gods:
"Grant that
this boy of mine be as strong and brave as I; a
mighty king of
Troy."
[Hector 1.
Homer, Iliad 6.475]
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Good-byes of Hector 1 and
Andromache
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"Thus
Hector charged, brandishing his sharp
sword.
Achilles sprang to meet him, inflamed with
savage passion." [Homer, Iliad
22.310]
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Hector
1 and
Achilles in single combat
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Priam 1 left
Troy
and went to see
Achilles,
carrying twelve robes, twelve cloaks, twelve
sheets, twelve mantles, twelve tunics, and many
other gifts, to ransom the body of his son
Hector 1 with.
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Priam
1 leaves
Troy to meet
Achilles
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