"The people took the bones, enwrapped them with Soft purple robes, and laid them down within A golden urn, to place it in a hollow Kist of stone, and cover it above With close-set rocks and earth to make a mound….When they had raised the mound Of earth above the grave, they went back to The city and assembled for a splendid Banquet in the hall of Priamos.Thus were the funeral rites completed for Illustrious Hekt Ar, the horsetamer."When the humiliated Akhilleus withdrew from battle, the Akhaians were on the verge of being defeated by the Trojans. However, in this second volume, when Patroklos, Akhilleus’ beloved comrade, dies in battle, Akhilleus is enraged. Dressed in a divine panoply, he returns to the fray, defeats the Trojans, and slays their champion Hekt Ar, desecrating the corpse of his opponent so outrageously that the Gods are outraged. They arrange for King Priamos to be escorted across the battle lines to Akhilleus’ abode. There, touched by the old man’s grief and courage, Akhilleus breaks down and achieves redemption by returning Hekt Ar’s corpse to Troy for honorable burial. The Iliad ends with Hekt Ar’s funeral rites.This volume ends with Notes for Books XIII-XXIV, and Glossaries describing the characters and the gods.
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