...compensated himself for the loss of his mistress by robbing Achilles of his. "Not I," he states afterwards, "was the cause of this act, but Zeus and my portion,...him. So what could I do? Deity will always have its way" (19.86ff). Impatient modern readers, as Dodds points out in The Greeks and the Irrational, generally...

...and the Erinyes who walk in darkness: they it was who in the assembly put fierce ate in my phrenes, on that day when I arbitrarily took Achilles' prize from him. So what could I do? The gods will always have their way. (Book 19, line 86, based on Dodds's 1951 translation, p. 3) Ate...

...communication with supernatural beings. Agamemnon explains why he stole the slave girl from Achilles: "Not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus, and my portion, and the Erinyes who walk in darkness: they it was in the assembly put wild ate upon me on that day when I arbitrarily...

...this act, but Zeus and the furies who walk in darkness: they it was who . . . put wild ate [madness] in my understanding, on that day when I arbitrarily...him. So what could I do? Deity will always have its way. In other words destiny — Zeus and his "wild ate" — will brook no denial. Is Agamemnon saying...

...Oxford University Press, 1953). 3. Euripides. Medea, XXXX 1078-1080. 4. Agamemnon in Homer's Iliad: "Not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus and my...him. So what could I do? Deity will always have its way," in ER Dodds. The Greeks and the Irrational. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973),...

...understanding so that he sought to compensate for the loss of his own mistress by depriving Achilles of his: "Not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus and my...darkness; they it was who in the assembly put wild infatuation in my understanding, on that day when I arbitrarily took Achilles' prize from him. So what...