Achilles
by Karl Friedrich Becker
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About this eBook
- Author
- Becker, Karl Friedrich, 1777-1806
- Credits
- Produced by D A Alexander, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Achilles (Mythological character) -- Juvenile literature
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 62453
- Release Date
- June 23, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ACHILLES
- 2.Translator’s Preface
- 3.Contents
- 4.Illustrations
- 5.Chapter I The Greeks March against Troy—Agamemnon Quarrels with Achilles
- 6.Chapter II Thetis Promises to Aid the Angry Achilles and Begs Jupiter’s Assistance—Juno is Angry—Agamemnon and the Other Princes Summon the Greeks to Battle
- 7.Chapter III Meeting of the Armies—Menelaus and Paris—Agamemnon Leads the Greeks into Battle
- 8.Chapter IV Continuation of the Battle—The Gods Take Part
- 9.Chapter V The Greeks are Successful—Hector Hastens to the City—Glaucus and Diomedes, Hector and Andromache
- 10.Chapter VI Hector and Ajax in Single Combat—A Truce—Another Battle at the Ships
- 11.Chapter VII Agamemnon Advises Flight—Council of the Princes—A Deputation is Sent to Achilles
- 12.Chapter VIII Agamemnon in Battle—Many of the Greeks are Wounded
- 13.Chapter IX Agamemnon Consoled—The Gods Take Part in the Strife and the Trojans are Driven Back
- 14.Chapter X Jupiter’s Message to Poseidon—The Battle for the Ships
- 15.Chapter XI Patroclus Hastens into Battle and Scatters the Trojans—Hector and Patroclus
- 16.Chapter XII The Fight for Patroclus’ Body—Achilles Mourns for His Fallen Friend—Thetis and Vulcan—Achilles’ Shield
- 17.Chapter XIII Achilles and Agamemnon Reconciled—Achilles Goes into Battle
- 18.Chapter XIV Achilles in Battle—The Fight on the River
- 19.Chapter XV Hector and Achilles—Hector’s Death
- 20.Chapter XVI Priam and Achilles—Hector’s Burial in Troy
- 21.Transcriber’s Notes
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