Saturday, October 30, 2010

A Brand New Iliad

The Iliad is attributed as "The World's Greatest War Novel" which was created by Homer, a Greek. The Iliad is all about a war between two nations and these are the Trojans and the Achaians. Some parts of the Iliad bored me like at Book 2 where it just stated all the people in the war and at Book 18 where the shield was very detailed and had a story. These Books really bored me and I've wanted to change them but I thought of changing another book so that the story would be more interesting and I chose the first part of Book 1.


This would be the story if I would change it. Chryses, the favorable priest of Apollo, went to King Agamemnon for he had a golden staff for a ransom for his daughter for she was a prize in Thebes when the Achaian fleet conquered it. King Agamemnon disagreed and said that he should bring a lot more than a golden staff then he would let his daugther let go. Chryses understood and brought out three nuggets of gold along with the golden staff then King Agamemnon now agreed to free his daugther but with one condition. Since Chryses was a favorable priest of Apollo, King Agamemnon's condition was that Chryses would pray to Apollo that he would help the Achaians conquer Troy. Chryses followed and prayed to Apollo.


If this would happen The Achaians has a greater chance to win against the mighty Trojans also, Achilles one of the best warriors of the Achaians, would have started the war immediately and not waiting for his noble friend, Patroclus, to be dead. Many conflicts would have not happen if my part of the story was implimented.
The Trojans would have a hard time to win because of these changes but Ithink that if this would happen Zeus, The God of all Gods. would do something to make the war fair. And this would be fair because at the very start the Trojans and Achaians would start with all their strength not one would be handicapped.

1 comment:

  1. Score: 27

    Creative!

    Reading the epic until the end, you will find out that the Acheans actually wins the battle.

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