Achilles announces the funeral games to honor the friend who was murdered.
For days the Achaean warriors will compete in the race, in the fight, in the throwing of the javelin, to measure their value and pay homage to the fallen hero.
On the tomb of Patroclus, Achilles, the hero of the first work of Western literature, will slaughter twelve noble Trojan prisoners in sacrifice.
The war has its rituals and its cruelties that return