Sublime

The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered green of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious Death would drink his blood, and grow young again.

Agamemnon commet une erreur : il ravit à Achille sa promise, Briséis, jeune captive qui revenait au guerrier comme une part de butin. Que n’a-t-il pas fait là, le vieux chef ! Le blond et bel héros, chef des Myrmidons, Achille aux « pieds-rapides », Achille « cher à Zeus » est le meilleur guerrier. Humilié, il se réfugie sous sa tente pour ruminer

Antaeus was deemed to be invincible, but there was a trick. He derived his strength from contact with his mother, Earth. Physically separated from contact with Earth, he lost all his powers. Hercules, as part of his twelve labors (in one variation of the tale), had for homework to whack Antaeus. He managed to lift him off the ground and terminated