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Good evening. In this episode, I'll be reading chapters 12 to 15 of The Story of Greece

by Mary McGregor. So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in

for a peaceful night's sleep.

CHAPTER 12. Menalayas and Paris do battle. When the heralds of Agamemnon had led

Brecius away, Achilles stripped off his armor, for not again would he fight in the Trojan

War. Down to the seashore he went alone to weep for the loss of Brecius, the fair cheat.

As he wept, he called aloud to his mother, Dietis. From the depths of the sea she heard

his cry, and swift on a wave she reached the shore. Soon she was by the side of her son,

and taking his hand, as when he was a boy, she asked, my child, why weepest thou?

When Achilles told how Agamemnon had taken from him, Brecius, whom he loved, go to the palace

of Zeus, he entreated her, and beseech Zeus to give me honor before the hosts of the Greeks.

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