Events mentioned in: Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 9, Embassy to Achilles

  1. Peleus makes Phoenix the king of the Dolopians
  2. Panic brings despair and unrest to the Achaeans
  3. Agamemnon tells his heralds to call the Achaeans to council
  4. Agamemnon commands the Achaeans to abandon Troy and return home with him
  5. Diomedes chides Agamemnon and tells him that the Achaeans will not leave until they have sacked Troy
  6. Nestor asks Agamemnon to hold a feast for his councilors to hear their opinions about the war
  7. Thrasymedes, Ascalaphus, Ialmenos, Meriones, Aphareus, Deipyros, and Lycomedes take up arms as the seven leaders of the sentinels who stand guard by the Achaean wall
  8. Nestor reprimands Agamemnon for offending Achilles and urges Agamemnon to appease him
  9. Agamemnon states how he will make reparations to Achilles
  10. Nestor sends Phoenix, Ajax, Odysseus, Odios, and Eurybates to tell Achilles of the gifts which Agamemnon is offering
  11. Achilles, Patroclus, and Automedon offer hospitality to Phoenix, Ajax, Odysseus, Odios, and Eurybates in Achilles’ tent
  12. Odysseus relays Agamemnon’s offer of reparation to Achilles
  13. Achilles rejects Agamemnon’s gifts and refuses to fight for him
  14. Achilles reveals what Thetis has told him about the two ways in which he may die
  15. Achilles warns the Achaeans to abandon the Trojan War and return home
  16. Achilles invites Phoenix to sail home with him
  17. Peleus sends Achilles to Agamemnon with Phoenix as his guardian
  18. Phoenix refuses to stay in Troy without Achilles
  19. Phoenix sleeps with his father’s concubine at the urging of his mother
  20. Amyntor curses his son Phoenix with infertility as retribution for sleeping with his concubine
  21. Phoenix conspires to kill his father, Amyntor
  22. Phoenix flees to Phthia
  23. Phoenix recounts how he raised and loved Achilles as if he were his own son
  24. Phoenix tries to convince Achilles to put aside his pride and anger towards Agamemnon
  25. The Curetes and the Aetolians fight
  26. Artemis is angered when Oeneus offers the first fruits of his harvest in sacrifice to all gods but her
  27. Artemis unleashes the Calydonian Boar on Oeneus’ orchards
  28. Meleager gathers many huntsmen and hounds
  29. Meleager kills the Calydonian Boar
  30. Meleager chooses not to fight and instead stays home with his wife, Cleopatra
  31. Idas takes up his bow and prepares to fight Apollo
  32. Althaia grieves the death of her brother
  33. Althaia prays to Hades and Persephone for the death of her son, Meleager
  34. The Aetolians send their chief priests to beg Meleager for his help against the Curetes
  35. Oeneus and Althaia ask their son, Meleager, for his help against the Curetes
  36. Cleopatra convinces Meleager to fight the Curetes
  37. Phoenix urges Achilles to take Agamemnon’s gifts and fight for the Achaeans
  38. Achilles refuses to fight for Agamemnon
  39. Achilles tells Ajax to tell Agamemnon that he will not fight until Hector reaches the tents of the Myrmidons
  40. Achilles carries off Diomede from Lesbos
  41. Achilles carries off Iphis from Skyros and gives her to Patroclus
  42. Agamemnon questions his envoys about Achilles’ response to his offer of reparation
  43. Odysseus tells Agamemnon that Achilles not only refuses to fight for the Achaeans, but urges them all to sail home
  44. Diomedes advises Agamemnon to ignore Achilles and rally the Achaeans himself
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