![]() ![]() Odysseus presents Agamemnon’s offer, but Achilles rejects it directly. The embassy finds Achilles playing the lyre in his tent with his dear friend Patroclus. The king selects some of the Achaeans’ best men, including Odysseus, Great Ajax, and Phoenix, to communicate the proposal to Achilles. Seeing the wisdom of this idea, Agamemnon decides to offer Achilles a great stockpile of gifts on the condition that he return to the Achaean lines. Nestor urges perseverance as well, and suggests reconciliation with Achilles. He buoys the soldiers by reminding them that Troy is fated to fall. Diomedes rises and insists that he will stay and fight even if everyone else leaves. ![]() ![]() He proposes returning to Greece in disgrace. Standing before them, Agamemnon weeps and declares the war a failure. With the Trojans poised to drive the Achaeans back to their ships, the Achaean troops sit brokenhearted in their camp. tries to convince Achilles to join the battle He raises Achilles when he was still young so he is trusted and truly loved by Achilles The stroke of death will not come on me quickly.” True, but the life that’s left me will be long, If I voyage back to the fatherland I love, My journey home is gone, but my glory never dies. “If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy, ![]()
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