46/122 Achilles is described as fierce to both, because he quarrelled with Agamemnon about a captive. It is with this quarrel that the _Iliad_ opens. _Rhesus_, king of Thrace, had come to help the Trojans. It had been prophesied that if his horses ate Trojan grass or drank the water of the river, Troy could never be taken. Diomedes (Tydides) prevented this by capturing the horses. |