Delahoyde & Hughes Orpheus HOMER'S ILIAD: BOOK VII

Questions for Book VII:

• The recommendation arises in the Trojan counsel meeting that perhaps Paris should return Helen. Do you think this would end the war?

Apollo and Athena are antagonists, Hector is hit by a rock, and we ask when will this cursèd war end? Back in Troy at a counsel meeting, Paris agrees to return the stolen treasures to Menelaus, but he refuses to give up Helen:

Now I say this to our stallion-breaking Trojans,
I say No, straight out -- I won't give up the woman!
(7.415-416)

Life does have to mean something, after all.

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