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The Iliad   The Iliad is a heroic poem about war, chronicling brutal battles and agonizing deaths in vivid detail. The opening of the poem finds the federation of Achaean chieftains in the final year of its ten-year-long siege of Troy. We soon learn what started this decade of bloodshed: Handsome Paris of Troy became enchanted with Helen—the beautiful daughter of divine Zeus and wife of Menelaus, the human king of the Achaean city Sparta—and carried her off to Troy to share his bed. Led by Menelaus’s brother Agamemnon, the Achaean armies’ supreme commander, and by swift-footed godlike Achilles, the greatest fighting man, the Achaeans attack and eventually defeat the Trojans, sending Helen back into Menelaus’s arms. But the Iliad is also a poem about anger, about Achilles’ feud with Agamemnon and its disastrous consequences. .....Read Quest of Olympias....Sivkishen, Author