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

and as he spoke he shed many tears, for he was much afraid lest the ships of the Greeks should be burnt.

"'O Achilles,' he said, "'if you are indeed determined to go away, how can I stay here without you?

Did not the old man Pellas your father make me your teacher, that I might show you both what you should say and what you should do, when he sent you from the land of Pythia to be with King Agamemnon?'

In those days, for all that you are now so strong and skillful in war, you were but a lad, knowing nothing of how warriors fight in battle, or of how they take counsel together.

No, I cannot stay here without you.

I would not leave you, no, not if the gods would make me young again, as when I came to the land of Pythia to be with Pellas your father.

For at the first I lived in Hellas,

and left it because the old man my father was angry with me so angry was he that he cursed me and prayed to zeus and the other gods that no child of mine should ever sit upon his knees and i too was very angry when i heard him say these words truly the thought came into my heart that i would fall upon him and slay him with the sword but the gods were merciful to me

and helped me to put away this wicked thought out of my heart.

So I gave up my anger, for I could not bear that men should say of me, See, there is the man who killed his own father.

But I was determined to go away from my father's house, and from the land of Hellas altogether.

Then came my friends and my kinsmen, and made many prayers to me, beseeching me that I would not depart.

but I would not listen to them, then they would have kept me by force.

Nine days and nine nights they watched my father's house, eating the flesh of sheep and oxen and swine, and drinking wine without stint from my father's stores.

They took turns to watch, and they kept up two fires without ceasing, one in the cloister that was round the house, and one before the great door.

But on the tenth night, when the watchmen were overcome with sleep and the fires were low, then I broke open the door of my chamber, for all that they had shut it fast with a knot that was hard to untie, and I leapt over the fence in the courtyard, and neither man nor maid saw me.

So I escaped, and fled from Hellas, and came to Pythia, to the old man Pellas, your father.

And your father was very kind to me, and was as a father to me,

He gave me riches, and he gave me a kingdom, which I might rule under him.

And also he trusted you to me, O Achilles, when you were but a little child, that I might teach you and rear you.

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