Book Eighteen

Thetis
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/Thetis.html

The good god Apollo has told me the tale of Achilles wrath when he found out about his good friends death. He vows to avenge him. My poor Hector. Though he has no armor, for my Hector has his!

The thought that my Hector would go up against Achilles in better armor comforted me but only a mere moment, for Apollo then showed me a scene with his mother, Thetis. She came with a few water nymphs to see what her son was distressing about. She had said to him that the path of the warrior will only bring him death, though Achilles cared not about death but only for vengeance. She then proceeded to tell him if he would only but wait a day to fight so she could visit Hephaestus to ask him to forge him some new armor.

In the meantime, Achilles ordered the body of his good friend to only be cleaned but not buried until the Hectors life and soul was drained from his body.


Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: The University of
     Chicago Press, 2011. Print. This book was the base of which I got the
     majority of the information in my characters blog post.