Table of Contents

	Preface	p. vii
	How Achilles and Agamemnon quarrelled over Briseis, and how Thetis persuaded Zeus to support her son	p. 11
	How a Dream came with a message from Zeus, and how the Achaians debated in their camp. The names and numbers of the two hosts	p. 23
	How Menelaos and Alexandros fought a duel together, and what came of it	p. 39
	The first battle between Trojans and Achaians	p. 48
	How Diomedes did great deeds of valour, and wounded Aphrodite and Ares himself	p. 58
	How Paris was brought back into the battle, and how Hector parted from Andromache	p. 74
	How Aias and Hector fought in single combat, and how the Trojans sent a herald to propose peace	p. 84
	The battle wavers to and fro	p. 92
	How Agamemnon repented of his violence and sent envoys to Achilles	p. 102
	How Diomedes and Odysseus went on a night raid and how they fared	p. 115
	How the battle turned, and the captains were wounded, and Achilles began to take notice	p. 126
	How the two armies fought before the wall, and how Hector broke down the gate	p. 141
	The battle among the ships	p. 149
	How Hera deluded Zeus and sent him to sleep; and how in consequence the tide of battle turned	p. 164
	How Zeus awoke, and what he said to Hera; how Hera took his message to the divine family and what they all said to it; and how the two armies fought among the ships	p. 174
	How Patroclos took the field in the armour of Achilles, his great feats of war, and his death	p. 187
	How they fought over the body of Patroclos	p. 202
	How Achilles received the news, and how his mother got him new armour from Hephaistos	p. 216
	How Achilles made friends with Agamemnon and armed himself for war	p. 228
	How Achilles swept the battlefield, and how the gods helped on either side	p. 236
	The battle by the river	p. 245
	Of the last fight and the death of Hector	p. 255
	The funeral rites of Patroclos, and how the games were held in his honour	p. 265
	How Priam and Achilles met, and the funeral of Hector	p. 282
	Pronouncing Index	p. 301

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