Epitome

Achilles did not go forth to the war, because he was angry on account of Briseis,---the daughter of Chryses the priest.[*](Compare Hom. Il. 1.1ff. From this point Apollodorus follows the incidents of the Trojan war as related by Homer.) Therefore the barbarians

Diomedes, doing doughty deeds, wounded Aphrodite when she came to the help of Aeneas;[*](Compare Hom. Il. 5.1-417.) and encountering Glaucus, he recalled the friendship of their fathers and exchanged arms.[*](Compare Hom. Il. 6.119-236.) And Hector having challenged the bravest to single combat, many came forward, but the lot fell on Ajax, and he did doughty deeds; but night coming on, the heralds parted them.[*](Compare Hom. Il. 7.66-312.)

The Greeks made a wall and a ditch to protect the roadstead,[*](Compare Hom. Il. 7.436-441.) and a battle taking place in the plain, the Trojans chased the Greeks within the wall.[*](Compare Hom. Il. 8.53-565.) But the Greeks sent Ulysses, Phoenix, and Ajax as ambassadors to Achilles, begging him to fight for them, and promising Briseis and other gifts.[*](The embassy of Ulysses, Phoenix, and Ajax to Achilles is the subject of the ninth book of the Iliad. Hom. Il. 9. Libanius composed an imaginary reply to the speech of Ulysses (Libanius, Declam. v., vol. v. pp. 303-360, ed. R. Foerster).)