"Grave stele of Hoplite Battle Scene," marble, circa 390 B.C. Public domain, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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"And the wound dried up, and the blood ceased to flow."
—the final line of Book 11 of The Iliad by Homer, translated by Caroline Alexander
(If only...)
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As I've been reading Caroline Alexander's translation of The Iliad, I've posted a brief synopsis of each book I complete on Twitter. Here are my collected Twitter synopses of books nine through twelve.
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BOOK 9
Diomedes speaks. Nestor speaks. Embassy from Agamemnon to Achilles. Meal. Phoinix speaks. Further fueled rage.
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BOOK 10
Brothers Atreus rouse the watches. Athena "faves" Diomedes and Odysseus wander into Trojan camp. Dolon. Dead!
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BOOK 11
Armor. "Men killing and men being killed." Struck: Agamemnon, Diomedes, Odysseus. Nestor's war story. Herbs.
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BOOK 12
Storm of the gods against the sea wall. Testing the trench. Eagle and snake. Hector breaches the Greek gates.
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