By now Menelaus has gone to Agamemnon, and Agamemnon has wanted to destroy us for years. And it's not just the Spartans coming after her. I don't want to see them suffer so my brother can have his prize. This is my country, and these are my countrymen. If we send her home to Menelaus, he will follow her. Women have always loved Paris, and he has loved them back, but this is different. You know Menelaus, he'd spear their heads to his gate. If I'd let him fight Menelaus for her, you'd be burning a son's body instead of welcoming a daughter. We need the greatest warrior.įather, I know this is the last thing we need. How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword? This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. I brought all the Greek kingdoms together! I created a nation out of fire-worshippers and snake eaters! I build the future, Nestor! Me! Achilles is the past. Yes, he's a gifted killer, but he threatens everything I've built. We don't need to control him, we need to unleash him. He's as likely to fight us as the Trojans. We need Achilles and his Myrmidons.Īchilles? He can't be controlled. I'll attack them with the greatest force the world has ever seen! I want all the kings of Greece and their armies. Hector commands the finest army in the east. the strong! If Troy falls, I control the Aegean. Old King Priam thinks he's untouchable behind his high walls. I always thought my brother's wife was a foolish woman. Let's settle this war in the old manner, your best fighter against my best. You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon.
they fought bravely yesterday not well but bravely. I told you yesterday and I'll tell you again today. You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!Īll the same, I go with her. I've killed men and I've heard them dying and I've watched them dying and there's nothing glorious about it, nothing poetic. Tell me little brother, have you ever killed a man? Oh, and that's sounds heroic to you doesn't it? To die fighting. If you want to take Helen back to Sparta, so be it! But I go with her. It's all a game to you isn't it? You roam from town to town, bedding merchants' wives and temple maids and you think you know something about love? What about your father's love? You spat on him when you brought her onto this ship! What about the love for your country? You'd let Troy burn for this woman? I won't let you start a war for her. I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.Īnd I've seen the limits of your mercy and I tell you now, no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.ĭo you know what you have done? Do you know how many years our father worked for peace? You want me to look on your army and tremble? Well I see them. Second, Troy must submit to my command, to fight for me whenever I call. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. I brought all the warriors of Greece to your shores. She's up there, watching, isn't she? Good. The sun was shining when your wife left you. Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, then steal his wife in the middle of the night? I see you're not hiding behind your high walls.
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