Lizzie Driver

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Story of King Arthur, in Twelve Tales · Iliad for Boys and Girls-Alfred John Church · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

To this Pandarus, as he stood waiting for what should happen next, there came a youth, a son of King Priam.

Such indeed he seemed to be, but in truth the goddess Athena had taken his shape, for she and, as has been before said, the goddess Hera hated the city of Troy, and desired to bring it to ruin.

The false Trojan came up to Pandarus, as he stood among his men, and said to him, Prince of Lycia, dare you to shoot an arrow at Menelaus?

Truly the Trojans would love you well, and Paris best of all, if they could see Menelaus killed with an arrow from your bow.

Shoot at him as he stands, not thinking of any danger.

But first vow to sacrifice a hundred beasts to Zeus, so soon as you shall get back to your own country.

Pandarus had made a bow out of the horns of a wild goat, which he had killed.

It was four feet long from end to end, and on each end there was a tip of gold in which the bowstring was fixed.

While he was stringing his bow, his men stood round and hid him.

And when he had strung it, he took an arrow from his quiver, and laid it on the string, and drew back the string till it touched his breast, and then let the arrow fly.

But though none of the Greeks saw what Pandarus was doing, Athena saw it, and she flew to where Menelaus stood, and kept the arrow from doing him deadly hurt.

She would not ward it off altogether, for she knew that the Greeks would be angry to see the king

whom they loved so treacherously wounded, and would have no peace with the Trojans.

So she guided it to where there was a space between the belt and the breastplate.

There it struck the king, passing through the edge of the belt, and through the garment that was under the belt, piercing the skin.

And the red blood gushed out, and dyed the thighs and the legs of the ankles of the king, as a woman dyes a piece of white ivory, to make an ornament for a king's war-horse.

now agamemnon was standing near and when he saw the blood gush out he cried o my brother it was a foolish thing that i did when i made a covenant with the trojans for they are wicked men and break their oaths i know that they who do such things will suffer for them sooner or later the man who breaks his oath will perish miserably

Nevertheless, it will be a great shame and sorrow if you, my brother, should be killed in this way.

For the Greeks will go to their homes, saying, Why should we fight any more for Menelaus, seeing that he is dead?

And the fair Helen, for whom we have been fighting these many years, will be left behind.

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