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Helen with Priam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Extract

Nine years the Achaeans lay encamped beside the sea. Toll was taken of the wealth of Priam and the lives of men in forays, raids, and skirmishes, but no pitched battle fought, until a time of pestilence and disaffection in the Greek camp culminated in the quarrel with Achilles and in Agamemnon's preparation for a general attack.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1933

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