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Ransom offers for prisoners

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Often appears with: slaughter of fleeing troops · hostile family rivalry in war · execution in battle · contracts, oaths, and obligation · conquest, plunder, and captives · chariot combat and casualties · battle and tactics

Usually: narrative (1) · rivalry (1) · detachment (1) · indignation (1)

The Iliad primary

Homer · ancient
BOOK I. > BOOK XI. (3/15)

Agamemnon captures and kills Antimachus’s sons Pisander and Hippolochus as their horses panic, refusing ransom, then pursues retreating Trojans, slaughtering men and drivers until they cannot flee.

sweating, and at her utmost speed before the mighty monster—so, no man of the Trojans could help Isus and Antiphus, for they were themselves flying in panic before the Argives. Then King Agamemnon took the two sons of Antimachus, Pisander and brave Hippolochus. It was Antimachus who had been foremost in preventing Helen’s being restored to Menelaus, for he was largely bribed by Alexandrus; and now …