| You are NESTOR of Pylos.You have a captive audience and spin tales of your youth (at great length: how you single-handedly crushed your father's enemies), and of Achilles' youth. Of how his father Peleus brought him up always to be the best, to be better than everyone else. Of how Patroclus' father brought him up to set a good example to Achilles. "Why don't you talk some sense into him now?" And then the fatal suggestion: "Why not ask if you can borrow his armour and lead the Myrmidons into battle?" |
