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

Did not the old man Pellas, your father, on the day when he sent you from Pythia, your country, to follow King Agamemnon, lay this charge upon you, saying, My son, the gods will give you strength, and will make you mighty in battle, if it be their will.

But there is something which you must do yourself.

Keep down the pride of your heart, for gentleness is better than pride.

Also keep from strife, so shall the Greeks, both young and old, love you and honour you.

this charge your father laid upon you but you have not kept it nevertheless there is yet a place of repentance for you for the king has sent us to offer you gifts great and many to make up the wrong he did to you so great and so many are they that no one can say that these are not worthy and then ulysses set forth in order all the things which agamemnon had promised to give

kettles and cauldrons and gold and women slaves and his daughter in marriage and seven cities to be her dowry and when he had finished the list of these things he said be content take these gifts which indeed no man can say are not sufficient and if you have no thought for agamemnon yet you should have thought for the people who perish because you stand aside from the battle

Take the gifts, therefore, for by doing so you will have wealth and love and honour from the Greeks, and great glory also, for you will slay Hector, who is now ready to meet you in battle.

So proud is he, thinking that there is not a man of all the Greeks who can stand against him.

Achilles answered, I will speak plainly, O Ulysses, and will set out clearly what I think is in my heart, and what I intend to do.

It does not please me that you should sit there and coax me, one man saying one thing and another man saying another.

Yes, I will speak both plainly and truly, for, as for the man who thinks one thing in his heart and says another with his tongue, he is hateful to me as death itself.

Tell me now, what does it profit a man to be always fighting, day after day?

It is but thankless work, for the man that stays home has an equal share with the man who never leaves the battle.

and men honour the coward even as they honour the brave and death comes alike to the man that works and to the man who sits idle at home look at me now what profit have i had of all that i have endured putting my life in peril day after day even as a bird carries food to its nestlings till they are fledged and never ceases to work for them and herself is but ill-fed so it has been with me many nights have i been without sleep

and I have laboured many days.

I took twelve cities to which I travelled in ships, and eleven to which I travelled by land, and from all I carried away much spoil.

All this spoil I brought to King Agamemnon, and he, who all the time stayed safe in his tent, gave a few things to me and to others, but kept the greater part for himself.

And then what did he do?

He left to the other chiefs that which he had given to them, but what he had given to me, that he took from me.

Yes, he took Briseis.

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