CLA204H1 Chapter 20: Notes for Chapter 20
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After hectors death allies from far away came to assist the trojans. Penthesilea (who led a contingent of amazons) was cut down by achilles. She she lay dying, he took pity on her, but she was mortally wounded. A greek scoundrel, theorists, called by homer the ugliest man who went to troy" derid- ed achilles for killing a woamen, so achilles killed him too. Paris assisted by apollo shot down achilles as he fought near the scaean gate. A great battle surrounded his body and at last ajax got the corpse over his shoulder and fought his way back to the greek lines. They burned his body and mixed his ashes with those do patroclus. Achilles armor was offered as a prize to the next-best warrior. Everybody knew this to be ajax, son of telamon. But odysseus was up for it to. Each made a speech before the assembled greeks.
