Achilles must lose his friend Patroclus before he will return to the fighting
You are AGAMEMNON. While Hector is waiting to attack, you are panicking. You tell a meeting of leaders that Zeus has broken his promise: the Greeks will never take Troy. Your cry is "All aboard the ships, and home to Argos!" The Greek leaders receive this bombshell frostily.

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