Nestor

Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls,great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion,feasts for the dogs and birds,and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Any movie or television series about the Bronze Age Trojan War conjures up battle scenes of thousands of Achaean and Trojan hoplites squaring up and facing each other on the Troad plains outside the famed walls of the city of Troy, or Wilusa as it was known to the Hittites. On the Dardanelles Strait the Achaeans had beached their ‘thousand ships’ and set up their camps to accommodate their army. The army must have