The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War by Henry Treece

Author:Henry Treece
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780241912164
Publisher: Meredith
Published: 1967-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

wood for the funeral-pyre. He has agreed to cease all warfare until Hector is laid to rest. So, for nine days we shall mourn him. On the tenth we shall bury him and hold our funeral feast. On the eleventh day we shall build him a mound. And the next day, we must be ready to take up the sword once more. ”

Paris suddenly cried out, “I am ready now, and my first revenge shall be on this brute Achilles. ”

Helen, standing beside him, put her hand over his mouth. “Think of Hector, not of Achilles, ” she said. “Dear Hector, he was the only true friend I ever had in Troy. The people here shudder at me as I pass, but Hector never spoke a harsh word to me. ”

Paris turned from her in anger and went away. Asterius tried to speak to her, but she did not notice him.

Then for nine days the men went outside the city, chopping down trees and bringing the wood back on wagons. The Greeks did not ambush them. On the tenth day crowds flocked to see Hector’s body carried by his brothers and comrades to the top of a great funeral-pyre and stood, lamenting all night, while the fierce flames licked round it, fed by the fat of sheep and cattle. In the morning, at dawn, the flames

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