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Menelaos is clearly unhappy about this development, he goes to his brother, Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Agamemnon takes Menelaos around Greece to unite all of Helen’s previous suitors and other allies to go fight Troy. Of the people they visited was Odysseus at Ithaca. Odysseus had foresight, and he knew this war was going to drag longer than it should. He was also the new father of a baby boy, Telemachus. Thus, Odysseus pretended to be insane to avoid the war. The Achaeans saw through him, however, and grabbed baby Telemachus, and threatened to cut him if Odysseus didn’t drop the act. Having been backed into a corner, he agrees to go. They recruit Achilles, son of Thetis and Peleus from the wedding that started this whole conflict. In case you were wondering, Achilles is supposed to be 15 at this point.
Thetis tries to warn Achilles of his future, but he goes off with the Achaeans. In one episode he marries and fathers a son, Neoptolemus. Along they come across the city of Teuthrania. Thinking it was Troy, they attack the city, honest mistake. Figuring out their mistake, they move on. While stopping to hunt, Agamemnon boasts he’s a better hunter than Artemis. Big mistake. For his words, Artemis sends a storm to ground the ships. After consultations the Achaeans decided the only way to make Artemis happy is for Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter to her, because every good story needs child murder. Agamemnon sends for her with a lie; that she is to marry Achilles as payment for joining the coalition. However, Artemis it turns out, isn’t happy with the sacrifice but horrified. Thus, she swaps out Agamemnon’s daughter for a deer on the altar before she is sacrificed. Later, Achilles kills a king beloved by the god Apollo. His mother warned him earlier that if he was to kill that king, Apollo would eventually kill him. During that excursion one of the leaders, Philoctetes, gets bitten by a snake. The Achaeans found the smell of his festering wound so offensive that they left him on an island with his most treasured possession, the bow of Hercules. Throughout all these diversions, Achilles and Agamemnon bicker and clash quite a bit.
