Nineteen and Twenty

Map of Troy's Gate
http://betta_more.tripod.com/trojanwar.html

I prayed, yet again, to Apollo to look after my dear husband. But, yet again, all he had brought me was more worries. I was shown that Achilles was still in morning and planned on going to battle once more, though he was pursued to let the men eat first. At this time, since before Achilles had vowed not to eat until his revenge occurred, Zeus had sent down Athena to fill his stomach with nectar and ambrosia. The food of the gods.

Does this purely mean that Achilles is a god, for only gods can stomach nectar and ambrosia and live off of it.

Zeus, now knowing that Achilles will strike down all men with ease on his way to Hector, refuses to let Troy fall before the cities fated time, so now he is allowing the help of gods on the battlefield.

Apollo had expressed some annoyance with me because of my husband. Hector had knowingly went against his advice which was to wait for Achilles to come near him and the other men before attacking him, which made Apollo have to save him once more. Thank you, dear Apollo. I don't know this person my husband has turned into.

This I had actually seen with my own eyes, for I was looking over the wall and only the battlefield. The map above can prove that I could see a majority of the field.


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.