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Homer: The IliadGrade 7dialectic Stage

The Quarrel

Agamemnon angers the priest of Apollo by refusing to return his daughter. Apollo sends a plague. When Agamemnon is forced to give up his prize, he takes Achilles' prize instead. Achilles, enraged, withdraws from the war and asks his mother Thetis to petition Zeus for the Trojans to win.

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