The Iliad, Book 7: riassunto
Book 7 di 24 · 17 min per leggere: book
In Book 7, Hector challenges the Achaeans, Ajax meets him, and night ends their duel without a death as they exchange gifts. The Achaeans reject Alexandrus’s offer of treasure without Helen, but both armies agree to burn their dead, and the Achaeans build defenses that draw Neptune’s complaint.
Cosa succede
- Minerva and Apollo arrange a pause through single combat, and Hector challenges the Achaean champions.
- After Menelaus is restrained and Nestor rebukes the leaders, nine volunteers cast lots, and Ajax is chosen.
- Ajax wounds and knocks down Hector, but Apollo raises him; heralds stop the duel at nightfall, and the fighters exchange gifts.
- Nestor proposes burial and defenses, while Antenor urges Helen’s return and Alexandrus offers treasure but refuses to surrender her.
- The Achaeans reject the offer but accept a burial truce; both sides recover and burn their dead.
- The Achaeans build a wall and trench, Neptune complains to Jove, and thunder frightens the armies during their feasts.
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Agamemnon separates rejection of the Trojan offer from respect for the dead. His agreement allows both armies to recover and burn their fallen.
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What does Alexandrus refuse to surrender in the Trojan council?
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