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surround the great Greek epic
poem The Iliad by Homer.
One instance when the gods were used to explain a strange and unusual thing
was towards the beginning of the book. When King Agamemnon didn't give up his
wife, a priestess of Apollo, the god became angry and did this to the Achaian
people "First he attacked the mules and dogs, then he shot his keen arrows at
the men and hit each mark. Pyres of the dead began to burn up everywhere and
never ceased" (p12) This to me sounds like a disease that suddenly infected
the Achaian army. Diseases usually start with animals, as that disease
evolves, it is able to attack and infect humans. This is what commonly happens
in Asia with people sharing living space with their animals both for heat and
there simply isn't enough space for them to be anywhere else. This could have
been how the Achaian war camp was set up, with animals living in close
quarters with their masters and a poor sewage system to go along with it. Now
...

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leave their boast
to Priam and his people? Will they their own Argive Helen, after so many men
have died in foreign land to get her back? Don't stand idle here! Go among
your men, speak to each fellow in your kindly way and keep them from launching
their ships!" p26
Odysseus loved battle; in fact he probably loved battle more than his homeland
and his wife combined. Now if all the Greeks stayed and fought they wouldn't
want to think that it was because of a war crazed madman, they would want to
think that they stayed and fought for Helen and for the revenge of their lost
friends. Some people knew that he was man who loved war over anything else by
actually placing one of the ...

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