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    THE SONS OF THE ACHAEANS











    Agamemnon

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    Agamemnon, son of Atreus and Aerope, was born into a family of bad blood and feuding. His early life, along with his brother Menelaus, was overshadowed by struggles between his father Atreus and his uncle Thyestes. When he was still young, he and Menelaus were sent by their father to arrest Thyestes. The two brothers captured him in Pytho, the seat of the famous oracle of Apollo, and brought him in chains to Mycenae where Atreus was king. Atreus heaped up false accusations on Thyestes and tried to kill him. However, Thyestes' son Aegisthus murdered Atreus before he was able to carry this out, and Thyestes was made the king of Mycenae.

    Agamemnon and his brother fled a certain death in Mycenae and went into exile. First they took refuge with King Polyphides of Sicyon and then with King Oeneus of Calydon. Finally they came to the court of King Tyndareus of Sparta, where they found a welcome home. In the end, being unable to bear a life of exile anymore, Agamemnon and Menelaus decided to retake power in Mycenae. King Tyndareus, who was very fond of the two brothers, provided them with an army of Laconian warriors, and they returned to Mycenae in arms. After a brief battle, Thyestes and Aegisthus fled to the island of Cythera, and Agamemnon and his brother took power in Mycenae once more.

    Having seized power in their home town, Agamemnon and Menelaus cemented their friendship with Tyndareus of Sparta by marrying his daughters. While Menelaus was lucky enough to receive Helen, the most beautiful mortal woman in the world, Agamemnon married Clytaemnestra and took the throne of Mycenae (since he was the elder of the two brothers). However, the marriage did not start on strong foundations; Clytaemnestra had already been promised in marriage to Tantalus, a son of Agamemnon's hated uncle Thyestes, and she already had a child by him. Therefore Agamemnon had to kill both Tantalus and the child before he could marry Clytaemestra. This was the first of many deep grudges that she would come to bear against her new husband. Agamemnon had several children with Clytaemnestra, though the epic and tragic poets disagree about their names. Traditionally it is said that Agamemnon was the father of one son, Orestes, and the three daughters Iphigenia, Electra and Chrysothemis. Homer, on the other hand, gives Agamemnon's daughters as Chrysothemis, Iphianassa and Laodice. After ruling relatively peacefully in this manner for some time, the story of Aristeia begins at about this point in Agamemnon's life.

    Then came the fateful visit of Paris to Sparta. While Menelaus was away in Crete Paris kidnapped his wife Helen and took her to Troy to be his own wife (having been promised this by Aphrodite). When Menelaus had married Helen the rival suitors all swore the Oath of Tyndareus, promising to give military aid to Menelaus if ever his marriage should be threatened. As Menelaus' older brother, Agamemnon had the ultimate command over all Atreid forces; with the declaration of the Trojan War, this effectively gave Agamemnon command over all the Achaean princes who had sworn the oath. Agamemnon now faced a huge war against a mighty foreign opponent, yet he relished the power that this gave him over the Achaeans.
    On Agamemnon's orders the Achaean invasion force gathered at the harbour of Aulis in North-Western Boeotia. A thousand warships were gathered at his command, yet for some reason the wind was constantly blowing in the wrong direction and kept the fleet from leaving the harbour. Agamemnon's prophet Calchas said that Artemis was behind this; it is assumed that she was angry after Agamemnon had shot a deer and claimed that the goddess herself could not have done any better. The only way to appease Artemis' jealous wrath was for Agamemnon to sacrifice his own daughter Iphigenia. Agamemnon wavered at this, but Menelaus and Odysseus urged him on, and so they sent a deceitful letter back to Clytaemnestra in Mycenae, persuading her to send the girl out to them in order to marry Achilles. The king overcame the father, and Agamemnon killed his daughter, offering her up to Artemis, though the poet Euripides claims that Artemis saved Iphigenia at the last moment, spiriting her away to the land of Tauris (modern-day Crimea) and replacing her with a deer. The winds changed, and at once the fleet was able to set sail for Troy. Clytaemnestra now had a second deep grudge against her husband.

    The war dragged on for ten years, and in the tenth year Agamemnon captured Chryseis, the daughter of the Trojan Chryses, a priest of Apollo from Thebe. Chryses came to Agamemnon, blessed the whole Achaean army and offered him a ransom for Chryseis. Although the Achaean soldiers applauded Chryses, Agamemnon insisted on keeping Chryseis. So Chryses left the Achaean camp and prayed to Apollo to wreak vengeance on Agamemnon and the Achaeans, whereupon the god grew angry and spread a deadly plague through the whole army. The prophet Calchas told Agamemnon of the cause, and so he agreed to release Chryseis after all. However, he insisted on taking another girl in her place, and so he came to take Briseis, a slave girl who had been awarded to Achilles, for his own. Achilles, not surprisingly, became enraged and refused to help the Achaeans in battle until Agamemnon had learned his lesson. Eventually Agamemnon did come to regret his wilful display of power and offered to restore Briseis to Achilles along with a huge treasure of gifts, though Achilles still refused. He would only return to the fight when Hector had killed Patroclus. Even so, Agamemnon insisted that he was not really to blame, for his reason he had been clouded by the goddess Ate (the personfication of blind folly), who is even capable of overcoming Zeus' wits.

    At any rate, Achilles eventually killed Hector, though in the end it fell to Odysseus to come up with the plan that captured the city, the so-called 'Trojan Horse'. Agamemnon himself was one of the heroes who hid in the belly of the wooden horse and then escaped at night when the Trojans had brought it into their city, opening the gates to the Achaean army. Agamemnon had finally achieved his aims, the grand objective for which he had slain his own daughter and driven the largest army in history across the sea to fight a ten-year war. He was awarded the royal Trojan prophetess Cassandra as his prize, and sailed away home to Mycenae. However, Cassandra, being able to see the future, knew that she was sailing home to a doomed household. For, while Agamemnon had been away at Troy, Clytaemnestra had been having a love affair with Aegisthus, the son of Agamemnon's uncle Thyestes. When he returned home, Clytaemnestra lured Agamemnon into his bath, and that was where she and Aegisthus ambushed him and stabbed him to death - an inglorious end for a glorious military leader.





    Menelaos

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    Menelaus, son of Atreus and Aerope, was born into a family of bad blood and feuding. His early life, along with his brother Agamemnon, was overshadowed by struggles between his father Atreus and his uncle Thyestes. When he was still young, he and Agamemnon were sent by their father to arrest Thyestes. The two brothers captured him in Pytho, the seat of the famous oracle of Apollo, and brought him in chains to Mycenae where Atreus was king. Atreus heaped up false accusations on Thyestes and tried to kill him. However, Thyestes' son Aegisthus murdered Atreus before he was able to carry this out, and Thyestes was made the king of Mycenae.

    Menelaus and his brother fled a certain death in Mycenae and went into exile. First they took refuge with King Polyphides of Sicyon and then with King Oeneus of Calydon. Finally they came to the court of King Tyndareus of Sparta, where they found a welcome home. In the end, being unable to bear a life of exile anymore, Menelaus and Agamemnon decided to retake power in Mycenae. King Tyndareus, who was very fond of the two brothers, provided them with an army of Laconian warriors, and they returned to Mycenae in arms. After a brief battle, Thyestes and Aegisthus fled to the island of Cythera, and Menelaus and his brother took power in Mycenae once more.

    Having established himself in Mycenae, Menelaus decided to marry. At the time Tyndareus' daughters Helen and Clytaemnestra were coming of age. Helen was the most beautiful girl that Menelaus had ever seen; indeed, she was probably the most beautiful girl that ever lived and ever will live. Not surprisingly Menelaus asked Tyndareus for her hand in marriage, but almost every other prince in Achaea came to do the same. This was potentially a very volatile situation - Tyndareus was afraid that the suitors who were passed over would return with armies to try to win Helen by force. Fortunately Odysseus of Ithaca, himself one of the suitors of Helen, suggested a cunning plan. The suitors were all to swear a holy oath that they would protect the marriage of whomever was successful; if the marriage was ever threatened, the unsuccessful suitors bound themselves to come to its defence. So they swore, and Helen chose Menelaus to be her husband, placing a wreath upon his head.

    When Tyndareus died, his kingdom of Sparta should have gone to one of his two sons, the Dioscuri. However, when these were spirited away to heaven, becoming stars in the night sky (this is another story entirely), Sparta passed on to Menelaus as Tyndareus' son-in-law. And so the Peloponnese came to be dominated by Agamemnon ruling in Mycenae and Menelaus ruling in Sparta. It is at this point in Menelaus' life that the action of Aristeia begins.

    After Menelaus' marriage to Helen, they had a daughter, Hermione, and two sons, Nicostratus and Plisthenes. After a few years the Trojan prince Paris came to visit Sparta on an embassy from Troy. However, the goddess Aphrodite was plotting to give Helen over to Paris, and made her fall in love with him when she saw him. He managed to kidnap her and steal her away to be his bride in Troy. When Menelaus learnt of this adulterous kidnapping, he went to his brother in Mycenae and together they threatened war against Troy. The Oath of Tyndareus was invoked, and all the great Achaean leaders rallied to the cause of Menelaus' marriage. When Paris refused to give up Helen, the Achaean army sailed from Aulis in Boeotia to attack Troy.

    When the Achaean army arrived before the walls of Troy, Menelaus and Odysseus were sent in to demand that Helen be restored to her home in Sparta. Nonetheless, the Trojans refused and even threatened to kill the two heroes. Fortunately for them, the Trojan Antenor (a man who wanted peace) intervened, and later when the Achaeans sacked Troy Menelaus had his house spared. And so the siege began.

    In the tenth year of the war the prince Paris finally agreed to face Menelaus in single combat. Menelaus was the stronger warrior, and knocked Paris to the ground. Then he started to drag him by his helmet crest in triumph, but Aphrodite came and snapped the helmet strap; Menelaus was left clutching his enemy's helmet, while Paris escaped, hidden in a mist created by the goddess. There was at the time a truce between the Trojan and Achaean armies. After this duel, however, the Trojan Pandarus fired an arrow that hit Menelaus in the leg, and the war was renewed. Menelaus' wound was healed by the Thessalian prince Machaon, son of the healing god Asclepius.

    Eventually it became clear that Troy could not be captured by ordinary assault, and the Achaeans built the famous wooden horse. Menelaus was one of the heroes who hid within it. The Achaean army withdrew out of sight from Troy (anchoring off the island of Tenedos), leaving the large wooden horse statue outside the city with the heroes concealed within it. The Trojans had a great debate as to whether or not to bring it into the city; in the end they did so, and that night, while the Trojans were revelling in their supposed victory, the Achaean heroes slipped out of the belly of the horse. Meanwhile the Achaean army had returned from Tenedos and was marching towards the gates of the city. Paris had died some time before this attack, and Helen had come to live at the house of the Trojan hero Deiphobus. Once the Achaean heroes had opened the Trojan gates to their army, Menelaus led his Spartan warriors straight to the house of Deiphobus. He seized Deiphobus and tortured him cruelly, cutting off his nose, then his ears, then all his fingers and limbs, one by one, until finally he finished the unlucky Trojan off.

    Yet, in the bloodlust that was unleashed after their victory, the Achaeans committed many outrages and offences against the gods. As a result, the gods punished them by sending a great storm to scatter their fleet as it tried to return home. It would take Menelaus eight years to return home with Helen. His ship was driven by contrary winds first to Sunium in Attica, then to Crete, Phoenicia, Egypt and Libya. Along the way he sacked various cities and won great spoils of war. When in Egypt, at the mouth of the Nile, he lost his ship's pilot Canobus, after whom the 'Canopic' branch of the Nile was named. Menelaus met the Egyptian prophet Proteus, and decided (on the advice of Proteus' daughter Eidothea) to capture him and force him to reveal when he would be allowed to return home. Proteus told him of the gods' anger at the Achaean outrages at Troy, and revealed that Menelaus would have to make a sacrificial offering to them. He did so, and he and Helen were finally allowed to return to Sparta.

    They sailed back to Achaea and arrived first in the city of Argos, where they met Orestes. Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra. Menelaus found that the old family feud of the Atreids had continued in his absence. During the Trojan War Clytaemnestra had begun an affair with Thyestes' son Aegisthus, and when Agamemnon returned from Troy they murdered him. Orestes had, in turn, murdered Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus. Orestes was being pursued both by mortal men for the crime of matricide and also by the divine avenging Furies. He asked Menelaus for help, but Menelaus, worried about the strong opinions of the people of Sparta (who wanted Orestes to be punished), refused to aid his nephew. As a result, Orestes, his sister Electra and his friend Pylades began to plot to murder Helen in revenge, though this deed never took place. In the end, the gods preferred that Orestes should marry Menelaus' daughter Hermione, after the goddess Athena had pardoned him for his matricide and appeased the Furies.

    Finally Menelaus and Helen were able to live out the rest of their lives in peace at Sparta. It is said that, after their deaths, the goddess Hera spirited them away to live in bliss in the Elysian Fields.




    Achilles

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    'Achilles' - the name of the strongest, bravest and fiercest warrior that this generation has seen. Only Heracles could match him for power, and he is now with the gods. Achilles' story begins with his mother Thetis, an immortal Nereid goddess of the sea. Thetis is an enchantingly beautiful goddess, so beautiful that the gods Zeus and Poseidon competed for her hand in marriage (never mind about Hera...). However, the goddess Themis prophesied that the son of Thetis would be stronger than his father, and so needless to say the two powerful gods decided to let somebody else wed Thetis. According to the poet Pindar, Themis told the gods that they should let Thetis accept the hand of a mortal man - for what god would knowingly want to beget a son who was stronger than himself? Cronus had already discovered the pain that this could cause! However, the poet Apollonius tells a different story - it was Thetis herself who rejected Zeus, out of respect for (or fear of?) Zeus' wife Hera. At any rate, Peleus - then banished from his home on Aegina - was chosen to be the mortal husband of Thetis.

    When the time came for Peleus to marry Thetis, she was unwilling, and used her divine powers to constantly change her shape and so escape the mortal hero. When he laid hold of her, she turned into a tree, a bird, and finally a tigress, at which point he let her go in fear. Eventually the god Proteus - himself a master in changing shape - took pity on him and gave him this advice: no matter what shape Thetis took on, Peleus must keep hold of her until she gave up and yielded to him, for so the gods had ordained. And so he tried again, grasping Thetis even when she turned into fire and water. Finally she relented, and the two were married on Mt Pelion. Many gods also came to the wedding, including Eris (goddess of discord) - she through an apple in through the door, saying that the most beautiful goddess should pick it up. This led to a dispute between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, which, when Aphrodite won, would lead to the abduction of Helen and the Trojan War.

    Thetis soon gave birth to their son Achilles, though there are different stories about what happened next. One account has it that she dipped him in the River Styx by his ankles, thus making every part of him - except the ankles which she was holding - immortal. Others say that she used to secretly put the baby on the fire in the hearth in order to burn away his mortal element. One night Peleus discovered her doing this, and, not knowing what was going on, cried out in panic. In a fit of divine pique, Thetis threw Achilles down and left the palace before expunging his mortal side, never to return to her mortal husband. Now a single parent, Peleus took the young boy to the wise centaur Chiron on Mt Pelion in order to give him instruction. It soon became clear that Achilles had a wild nature, and only Chiron could be trusted to keep it under control. However, as he grew older, Achilles began to torment the other centaurs, raid their homes, and steal their cattle and possessions. When Thetis finally returned to visit her son, Chiron, no longer able to keep Achilles in check, begged the goddess to take him away.

    Some years later, as the Trojan War was beginning, the prophet Calchas (personal seer of Agamemnon) foretold that Troy would never be taken unless the young Achilles came to fight for the Achaeans as well. That is why, even though he was not a suitor of Helen and so not bound by the Oath of Tyndareus, Achilles was sought out to fight in the war. Thetis foresaw that he would be killed in the war, and so after she took Achilles away from Chiron she tried to hide him on the island of Scyros, which was ruled over by King Lycomedes. Thetis dressed Achilles up as a girl and lied to Lycomedes, saying that the boy was Achilles' sister Pyrrha. Achilles at first refused to dress in a girl's clothing, but when he fell in love with Lycomedes' daughter Deidamia and saw that this was the only way to become close to her, he agreed and so was accepted into Lycomedes' entourage as a young maiden. Some people say, however, that this is a ridiculous story, and that the only reason why Achilles was in Scyros was because he had conquered it.

    Disguised as a girl on the Aegean island of Scyros, Achilles might have escaped his fate in the Trojan War had it not been for wily Odysseus, who discovered a way around Thetis' disguise. He came to Scyros and discovered that Achilles was there disguised as his own sister. When the king's maidens were all gathered together, Odysseus took a war trumpet and blew several rousing, martial notes on it; all the real girls scattered, but Achilles immediately struck up a fighting pose, since that was in his nature. And so it was that Achilles' true identity was discovered, and he was led away to fight in the war, commanding his force of Myrmidons.

    As the Achaean fleet approached the Mysian coast, Thetis sent a servant to Achilles in order to warn him not to be the first to land, since it had been prophesied that the first to land would be the first to die. That unlucky fate befell Protesilaus, who spearheaded the Achaean assault on the Trojan beach and, after killing several defenders, was himself killed. The servant was also supposed to prevent Achilles from harming Tenes, the king of the island of Tenedos (just off the coast from Troy), for he was the son of Apollo, and it was foretold that Apollo would personally slay any man who harmed Tenes. Yet, when Achilles fell in love with Tenes' sister Hermithea, and when Tenes attempted to protect her, Achilles killed the unfortunate king. Achilles may be the greatest warrior in the world, but surely not even such a man can withstand the vengeful wrath of the archer-god Apollo?





    Aias

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    Ajax was famous as the proverbial second-best of the Achaeans. In the tales of the poets, he was the second-best Achaean warrior after Achilles; in Classical Athens it would become illegal for the Aiantid tribe (named after Ajax) to ever come last in any public competition, because Ajax never took well to losing. In Sophocles' tragic play Ajax, the great hero, having just lost a competition over the dead Achilles' arms to Odysseus, tries to kill all the Achaean leaders and then commit suicide, though even in this he was frustrated. His life was very short, and far more is known about his deeds in the Trojan War than in his former life.

    Once, in times past, mighty Heracles came to visit his friend Telamon on the island of Salamis in the Saronic Gulf. The two had a great feast, and then they retired to Telamon's garden to drink together. Heracles prayed to his father, Zeus, asking that Telamon might be granted a brave son, and one who would be invulnerable. Soon afterwards, the bird of Zeus, an eagle (called 'aietos' in the Greek tongue) appeared in the air above them. Heracles told Telamon that this was a sign that Zeus had answered the prayer:

    "Telamon, you will have the son that you ask for. Name him after the bird that appeared: wide-ruling Aias, awesome in the war-toils of the people."
    (Pind. Isth. 6.51)

    While Telamon did indeed have a brave son, Ajax (in our tongue), he was not granted invulnerability. On the other hand, the boy soon became known for his great strength and handsome appearance. He obtained a fine shield from Tychius, a craftsman of Hyle in Boeotia, made from seven hides of bulls covered by a layer of bronze. As a young man he became one of the suitors of Helen, daughter of Tyndareus, though he was ultimately unsuccessful, as Menelaus (the son of Atreus) was selected to be Helen's husband. In order to prevent bloodshed, cunning Odysseus had suggested that all the suitors should swear an oath to protect the marriage, no matter who was chosen to be the husband. This was known as the 'Oath of Tyndareus'. Thus, since Ajax failed in his suit, he is one of the many Achaean princes to swear to protect the marriage of Menelaus and Helen.

    And so it is that, at a young age, Ajax was called to lead the warriors of Salamis to war against the Trojans, in order to win Helen back from her lover Paris. When he arrived in the Trojan land, he sacked the city of King Teleutas (an ally of Troy), killed the king and took his daughter Tecmessa as a prize. He then married Tecmessa and had a son by her, Eurysaces ('Broad Shield'). Now Ajax is in command of the Salaminians before Troy, and looking towards future glory and victory... as long as someone else does not steal these from him!




    Diomedes

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    As a young boy, Diomedes grew up in the city of Argos in the Peloponnese. He was the son of Tydeus, an Aetolian hero, and an Argive mother named Deipyle. Tydeus forced to flee from his home city of Calydon in Aetolia to escape the persecution of his brother Agrius, and so he came to the court of King Adrastus of Argos as a suppliant. There Tydeus married Adrastus' daughter Deipyle, and Adrastus even offered to restore Tydeus to the throne of Calydon. However, in the meantime he had a job of his own for Tydeus. Adrastus' son-in-law Polynices, the son of Oedipus the disgraced former king of Thebes, had been driven from that city by Creon and his own brother Eteocles. And so Tydeus agreed to take part in what would become known as the 'War of the Seven Against Thebes', in which he and six other heroes (including Polynices) went to recapture Thebes. The war was a failure, and Tydeus perished in battle. With Tydeus dead, there was no longer any need for his son Diomedes to return to Calydon, and so he became a permanent resident in Argos.

    Ten years after the Seven Against Thebes, their sons (including Diomedes) returned to fight a war of revenge against the city, which was now ruled by Eteocles' son Laodamas. They were known as the 'Epigoni' ('Descendants'), and they aimed to put Polynices' son Thersander on the throne of Thebes. Thersander gathered the force of Epigoni and they appointed Alcmaeon, son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and enrolled troops from Corinth, Arcadia, Messenia, Megara, and of course Argos. They first of all laid waste the lands of Southern Boeotia and then encountered the Theban army at Glisas, where Alcmaeon slew Laodamas in single combat. The Theban army broke and fled, and then, on the advice of the famous prophet Tiresias, surrendered the city to Thersander. The other heroes returned to their own cities, now enriched with plunder.

    Now back in Argos, Diomedes turned his mind once more to Calydon in Aetolia. As Adrastus' son-in-law Diomedes came to reign over Argos, and so led an Argive army to Calydon. His aim was to remove his uncle Agrius (who had usurped the throne) and free his grandfather Oeneus, who had been imprisoned by Agrius. With the help of his fellow Epigonus Alcmaeon, Diomedes attacked and conquered Calydon. Agrius killed himself, though Diomedes was able to catch and slay most of Agrius' supporters, except for Onchestus and Thersites, who fled to the Peloponnese. Rather than putting Oeneus back on the throne of Calydon, however, Diomedes brought him back with him to Argos, giving the government of Calydon to Oeneus' son-in-law Andraemon. However, as they were passing through Arcadia on their return to Argos, Diomedes and Oeneus were ambushed by Onchestus and Thersites, who managed to kill the old man. Diomedes was unharmed, but all that he was able to do was to bring Oeneus' corpse to Argos. Oeneus was buried to the North-West of Argos, at a place that became known as Oenoe.

    Though there is some dispute over the chronology of these early episodes in Diomedes' life, nonetheless it is well known that he became one of the suitors of Helen, the daughter of Tyndareus. She was the most beautiful woman in the world, and suitors came from all over Achaea to ask for her hand. Since Tyndareus was afraid that the unsuccessful suitors would come back with armies to try to take Helen by force, he adopted Odysseus' plan that all the suitors should swear a divine oath to protect (with force) the marriage of whichever man was successful. Diomedes swore to this oath. Menelaus was successful, however, and so Diomedes became bound to defend his marriage, effectively making him subject to the leadership of the Atreidae, along with all the other great princes of Achaea. It is at this point in Diomedes' life that the events of Aristeia begin.

    Helen was of course stolen away to Troy by Paris, and so Diomedes was called upon to join the Achaean army that sailed under Agamemnon and Menelaus to retrieve her from the Trojans. He personally contributed eighty ships to the Achaean fleet. The Achaean leaders gathered at Aulis in Boeotia, and it was there that Diomedes became a close friend of Odysseus. When the fleet initially tried to sail out of the harbour, it kept being blown back in by the wind. Eventually Agamemnon was forced to sacrifice his own daughter Iphigenia to appease the whims of the gods, and it is said that Diomedes and Odysseus were the only two Achaean leaders who knew about this at the time.

    In the fighting around Troy, Diomedes was counted as one of the bravest of the Achaeans. He slew about thirty enemy heroes during the war, including Rhesus (king of the Thracians), Chromius and Echemmon (two sons of Priam) and Alcibie and Derimachea (two Amazon warriors). The poet Homer recounts much of his fighting in Books 5 and 6 of the Iliad, the so-called 'Diomedous Aristeia'. Having killed many Trojan fighters, Diomedes came across Aeneas in the thick of battle (the same Aeneas who would later go to Italy and establish the Roman nation) and would have killed him too, had not Aeneas' mother the goddess Aphrodite hidden him in a cloud and helped him escape. Nonetheless, Diomedes even attacked Aphrodite and wounded her in the hand, whereupon she fled back to Mount Olympus in tears. She handed Aeneas over to Apollo, and Diomedes would even have continued his attack, had the great god Apollo not rebuked him loudly and reminded him of his divine powers, saying:

    "Think, Diomedes, and give way! Do not aspire to be the equal of the gods. The immortals are not made of the same stuff as men that walk on the ground!"

    Later on in the same battle, the god Ares came to fight on the Trojan side. He had previously promised to Athena and Hera that he would help the Achaeans, but he either forgot or changed his mind. Therefore Athena came down and stood next to Diomedes in his chariot. She took the reins and drove the chariot towards Ares, encouraging Diomedes to attack the god. He did so, and with Athena's help the spear wounded Ares in his lower abdomen, and he too fled to Mount Olympus in pain. It is true that Diomedes defied the gods in battle, though only with the help of more powerful gods, it must be remembered. Nonetheless, he made himself widely renowned for his fighting prowess.

    Diomedes and Odysseus went on various adventures together during the war. During one night (the so-called 'Dolonea' of the Iliad, though it was probably not composed by Homer) he and Odysseus went out to raid the Trojan camp. There they found the Thracian Rhesus, a wealthy and famous warrior who had just joined the Trojan army that very same day. He was asleep, and the two Achaean heroes slew him where he lay and plundered his armour. On their way back to the Achaean camp they ran across the Trojan spy Dolon and killed him too. On another occasion Odysseus and Diomedes infiltrated Troy to steal the Palladium (a famous statue of Pallas Athena), having learned from the Trojan prophet Antenor that the city would not fall unless the Achaeans managed to obtain it.

    However, Diomedes was not only famous for being a great fighter and adventurer. He was also very well known for his honour and mercy. Once he encountered the Lycian hero Glaucus on the battlefield, and prepared to fight with him. Yet when they both announced their parentage to each other (as was the custom before heroes duelled), he realised that Glaucus' grandfather Bellerophon had been a guest-friend of his own grandfather Oeneus, and so the two men decided not to do battle after all, but to make a public assertion of their friendship. They exchanged armour, though Homer notes that it was not an equal exchange - Glaucus gave up a suit of golden armour worth a hundred oxen, whereas Diomedes' merely gave up a suit of bronze armour worth nine oxen.

    Eventually Odysseus conceived of the Wooden Horse, with which the Achaeans managed to capture Troy. The Achaean army retreated and the fleet anchored on the opposite side of the island of Tenedos, just off the Trojan coast. Meanwhile a large horse statue was left outside the city of Troy. After a debate, the Trojans decided to bring it inside the city and dedicate it to Poseidon, unaware that the belly of the horse contained a large force of Achaean heroes. Diomedes was one of the heroes inside the horse. At night time, when the Trojans were asleep after a day's revelling in their supposed victory, the Achaean heroes stole out of the horse and opened the gates of the city. The Achaean army had returned from Tenedos, and seized Troy in an orgy of violence and blood-letting.

    When the war was over and Diomedes tried to return home, he was frustrated by Palamedes. Palamedes had apparently been the only man ever to outwit Odysseus - when Odysseus had been trying to get out of his obligations to support Agamemnon's expedition against Troy, Palamedes had tricked him into fulfilling his oath. Therefore, when the army had reached Troy, Odysseus murdered Palamedes in revenge, and it is claimed by some that Diomedes had helped him in this. Whatever the truth was, Palamedes' brother Oeax went to Argos and spoke to Diomedes' wife Aegialia. He told her that Diomedes was bringing another woman back from Troy to be his wife, and so, with the help of Aphrodite (who was still angry at the wound she had received from Diomedes at Troy) helped Aegialia to take on a series of lovers. When Diomedes returned to Argos, he found the city gates closed to him, and was forced to leave once and for all.

    Diomedes and his companions left Achaea for the last time and migrated to the court of King Daunus in South-Eastern Italy, where he married the king's daughter and became an Italian prince. When Aeneas arrived in Latium and fought against the Italians led by Turnus, some of his enemies came to Diomedes to persuade him to join the fight against Aeneas. However, Diomedes, having had enough of war, refused, and lived out the rest of his life in peace in Apulia. Some people say that Athena later made him a god.




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    Little is known of Odysseus' background before the Trojan War, though from the poet Homer it is known that his father was Laertes of Ithaca and his mother was Anticlea, though a scholium on Sophocles' Ajax claims that his real father was Sisyphus, the famously avaricious and deceitful son of King Aeolus of Thessaly. Odysseus' maternal grandfather was the notorious thief Autolycus, the son of Hermes and Chione. Undoubtedly this bloodline contributed to the wily trickster's great intelligence and cunning. Homer is the main source for Odysseus' life, though the mythographers Apollodorus and Hyginus (who postdated Homer by several hundred years) provide some additional information about the hero's deeds before the beginning of the Trojan War.

    The first well known accomplishment by Odysseus was the 'Oath of Tyndareus', by which a potentially explosive situation was resolved peacefully. When old King Tyndareus of Sparta was offering his daughter Helen for marriage, her great beauty ensured that suitors came from all across Achaea to ask for her hand, Odysseus among them. Since she was the object of much desire and envy, it seemed likely that the suitors who failed might try to take revenge on the one who succeeded. Such a situation could have led to a war throughout all Achaea. As a result, Odysseus decided to suggest to Tyndareus that, before announcing which suitor he wished to marry Helen, he should have them all gather together and swear a sacred oath that, whichever suitor won Helen's hand, they would all jointly agree to defend the marriage. This seemed like the perfect solution, and so they all swore the oath. For a time there was peace, but when the Trojan prince Paris came from the East and stole Helen away, war between Achaea and Phrygia became inevitable. Odysseus had a bad feeling about this - a war that brought all of Phrygia and Achaea against one another in front of the mightiest walls in the world would not be quick or easy.

    In fact, Odysseus had such a bad feeling about the war that he decided to try to get out of it altogether, oath or no oath. Since he could hardly say no to Agamemnon's summons - that would heap dishonour on his head and would earn him the enmity of the whole Achaean world - he came up with a plan: he would pretend to be mad. And so he decided to start ploughing his fields with salt, something that only a madman would do (since it would make his land completely infertile). Agamemnon sent Palamedes, an extremely intelligent and resourceful man in his own right, to fetch Odysseus and make him fulfil his oath. When he saw Odysseus ploughing the fields, knowing his wiliness, Palamedes decided to test whether or not this was one of his trademark tricks. He took Odysseus' young son Telemachus, still an infant at the time, and placed him in front of Odysseus as he was ploughing. Since Odysseus did not want to run over his son with the blade of his ploughshare, he had to abandon the pretence of madness, and so he was compelled to travel to Aulis to join the Achaean fleet.




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    Nestor is a hero of great age and experience. He was a young boy back in the days when Heracles fought his way through the Peloponnese, and the direction of his life was greatly affected by his family's encounter with that hero. In fact, Heracles' war in Messenia did much to shape Nestor's character, and to an extent the rest of his life was sharply defined by this moment.

    Nestor was born the son of Neleus and Chloris. Neleus was a direct descendant of Deucalion, the only mortal to survive the great flood of ancient times, and he became the king of Pylos in Messenia. Chloris was the daughter of King Amphion of Thebes and Niobe from Mt Sipylus in Maeonia. Neither of Nestor's parents led happy lives, though this is hardly unusual among heroes and women for whom even the gods feel envy. Niobe had so many sons and daughters that she fell a victim to hubris, boasting that she had had a great number of children, but that the Titaness Leto had only had two. This proved to be a mistake, since those two children happened to be the Olympian gods Apollo and Artemis. Enraged by Niobe's arrogance, Apollo and Artemis shot down all of her children - all but Chloris and Amyclas, who were spared after they prayed for mercy. Apparently moved by pity after the brutal slaughter of so many innocent children, Apollo promised that Chloris' son would live as long as three generations. At the time of the Oath of Tyndareus, Nestor had already been alive for two generations - it is likely that he will be around for some time yet.

    Neleus originated in the city of Iolcus in Thessaly, but was banished by Pelias (the same man who sent Jason to Colchis to fetch the golden fleece) and fled to Messenia. There are differing stories about what happened next; one version says that Neleus founded the city of Pylos and became its first king, but another version claims that it was founded by Pylas, and that Neleus and his band of exiles conquered it from him and made it their own. The great hero Heracles came to Pylos, asking Neleus to purify him of the guilt of his murder of Iphitus, but Neleus refused to do so, since he was a friend of Iphitus' father Eurytus, the king of Oechalia in Aetolia. Heracles went away unpurified, and later on, when he was fighting wars in the Peloponnese, remembered Neleus' slight and attacked Pylos. Heracles was unstoppable and killed all of Neleus' sons except for Nestor. Nestor happened to be away at the time, being educated in the city of Gerenia (also in Messenia). Heracles sought him out and put him on the throne of Pylos, just as he put Priam on the throne of Troy after killing Laomedon (though he did not kill Neleus).

    After Heracles left Messenia, Pylos was desperately impoverished. Its best warriors had perished in battle and its lands were devastated. King Phyleus of Elis to the North of Messenia, a traditional enemy, took the opportunity to raid Nestor's new kingdom, driving away cattle, stealing property and enslaving people. The Messenians did their best to defend themselves, and so the Eleans decided to send an army to assert their control completely. Among this army were the Molionides, twins whose bodies were joined together, some of the only warriors to ever defeat Heracles in battle. However, the goddess Athena came to help Nestor and he won the battle gloriously, killing the Elean hero Itymoneus and Mulius, the brother-in-law of Phyleus. He could not kill the Molionides themselves, however, since Poseidon shrouded them in a thick mist and rescued them from the battle.

    After the war with Elis, Nestor's fame and reports of Pylos' resurgent power spread throughout the Peloponnese. This eventually led to a war with the Arcadians, whose country borders Messenia in the North-West. The greatest hero of Arcadia at the time was named Ereuthalion, a retainer of the Arcadian King Lycurgus. Ereuthalion was an extremely intimidating opponent, all the more so because of the divine armour that he wore. Many years before, the god Ares had given this divine armour to King Areithous the Maceman, and Lycurgus had slain Areithous and taken the armour for himself. This he eventually gave to Ereuthalion. As a result, nobody ever dared to challenge Ereuthalion - until Nestor. Though still a young man, he squared up to Ereuthalion and slew him in single combat.

    Nestor has also taken part in a number of adventures in foreign lands, such as the hunt for the Calydonian boar. One of the most unusual of these adventures was the so-called 'Centauromachy', the war between the Lapiths and the Centaurs (strange half-man, half-horse creatures) of Thessaly. This began when the Lapith hero Pirithous married Hippodamia and invited the Centaurs to his palace to celebrate the wedding feast. Also present were princes from other cities in Achaea, including Theseus and Nestor. The Centaurs, being savage creatures in general, over-indulged in wine and became so drunk that they attempted to rape Hippodamia. The Lapiths would not let this insult go unheeded, and nor would the other civilised guests at the wedding. Together Nestor, Theseus and Pirithous fought a mighty war against the Centaurs, which resulted in their complete extinction. Only the civilised Centaur Chiron was left alive.

    Later in life Nestor settled down to rule Pylos peacefully, though he could hardly ignore affairs throughout the rest of Achaea. As Agamemnon and Menelaus established themselves as lords of Mycenae and Sparta respectively, he came to be a trusted friend and advisor of theirs, especially after the Oath of Tyndareus bound the great princes of Achaea in loyalty to them. It is at this point in Nestor's life that the story of Aristeia begins.

    Soon the Trojan War broke out after Paris abducted Helen, and Nestor and his sons Antilochus and Thrasymedes naturally joined in with the other Achaean kings and princes who accompanied Agamemnon and Menelaus on their campaign to fight against Troy. Though he avoided much of the fighting due to his great age, Nestor nonetheless became famous throughout the Achaean army for the consistent wisdom of his counsel. Though good, his advice was not always heeded. If it had been it would have prevented the rift between Agamemnon and Achilles that led to the wrath of Achilles that the poet Homer depicts in the Iliad. Agamemnon wanted to take away Briseis, a slave girl that had been awarded to Achilles by the army; Nestor cautioned him not to do so, but also reminded Achilles that he should not disobey Agamemnon. Sadly neither man listened, and this led to great suffering for the Achaeans at the hands of the Trojan prince Hector.

    Even though he was not always in the front ranks of the Achaeans at Troy, Nestor was undeniably one of the bravest. When Zeus, as Homer recounts, decided to grant victory in the Trojans until Achilles should return to the fray, the god sent a fantastic flash of lightning. All the Achaean heroes ran away except for Nestor, who stayed on the field with his chariot. Alas, Paris shot dead one of his horses, and so Nestor was forced to face Hector in single combat. The old man might have died, but Diomedes came back and joined in with him. Then Zeus sent another lightning bolt, which landed near them; Nestor took the god's hint, and together he and Diomedes made a fighting retreat. Eventually it was Nestor who persuaded Patroclus to take Achilles' Myrmidons out to fight; when Hector slew Patroclus, Achilles himself finally returned and tipped the balance back in the Achaeans' favour.

    After the Trojan War Nestor and Diomedes set out home together, and Nestor remained in Pylos for the rest of his life. Later on, when Telemachus was looking for his father Odysseus (who was still detained on the island of Calypso while trying to get home from Troy), the young boy came to Pylos and was received by Nestor, who gave him hospitality. It is not known how Nestor came to die in the end.




    Peleus

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    The hero Peleus, a great adventurer and the king of Phthia, is the son of Aeacus and Endeis. Aeacus was the king of Aegina, and was the man for whom Zeus transformed ants ('myrmekes' in Greek) into men, creating the Myrmidons. Peleus is the brother of Telamon, who would go on to rule over the island of Salamis. However, their youth was marred by a terrible tale of treachery and murder. Aeacus became besotted with the nymph Psamathe, and pursued her despite her attempts to escape by transforming herself into a seal. Eventually Aeacus lay with her, and she gave birth to a bastard son named Phocus. Phocus became a great athlete, and so Peleus and Telamon (Aeacus' legitimate sons) decided to slay him out of jealousy. One day the two brothers persuaded Phocus to take part in a pentathlon with them. When they came to throw quoits, Peleus through his quoit at Phocus, hitting him on the head and killing him outright. Peleus and Telamon then dragged the body away, hiding it in a forest. Nonetheless, Phocus was soon missed and the murder was discovered. Aeacus banished Peleus and Telamon from Aegina for their act of fratricide.

    While Telamon fled to Salamis, Peleus travelled to Phthia in South-Eastern Thessaly where he took refuge at the court of King Eurytion, who quickly took a liking to him. Eurytion performed a purification ritual, purging Peleus of his guilt for the murder of his brother, and then gave the young man a third part of Phthia to rule as his own. Peleus also married Eurytion's daughter Antigone. As a young man in Phthia Peleus became quite an adventurer. His first expedition was with Jason and his fellow Argonauts to fetch the golden fleece from King Aeetes of Colchis. Jason was a prince of the city of Iolcus (which lies just next to Phthia on the Magnesian peninsula of Thessaly) and was sent out by his father Aeson, who hoped that his son would die on the quest, since he feared that Jason would overthrow him. Jason built the ship Argo with the help of Athena and put together a team of heroes to join him on his mission, one of whom was Peleus. The expedition was a success, and Peleus returned to Achaea with great fame.

    This success was quickly followed by another tragedy, however. After his return to Achaea, Peleus was invited to join a group of heroes who were planning to kill the Calydonian boar. After King Oeneus of Calydon forgot to sacrifice to Artemis, the angry goddess had sent an enormous, deadly boar to ravage his country. Now the heroes determined to kill it and save Calydon. Both Peleus and Eurytion went on this hunt, and as they were battling the boar Peleus accidentally struck down Eurytion with a javelin. In grief and shame Peleus left Phthia and came as a suppliant to King Acastus of Iolcus, who purified him again. While Peleus was in Iolcus Acastus was celebrating the funeral games of his father Pelias. During these games Peleus wrestled with the famous female hero Atalanta (who had also been on the Calydonian Hunt), and was defeated by her. Even so, this is not such a great source of shame for a man, since Atalanta was the one who had struck the deadly blow that had killed the Calydonian boar.

    Once again, however, Peleus' stay was to prove unhappy for him. Acastus' wife Astydamia fell in love with him, and, when he refused to commit adultery with her, she sent a deceitful message to Peleus' wife Antigone saying that he intended to marry Acastus' daughter Sterope; Astydamia also accused him to Acastus of trying to seduce herself. Acastus was reluctant to kill Peleus, and instead took him to Mt Pelion in Thessaly (where centaurs lived), waited until he fell asleep and abandoned him there. The savage centaurs, who hate the race of men, would have killed Peleus, but the wise and merciful centaur Chiron prevented them.

    Now Peleus' fortune was finally to take a turn for the better. It is said that Zeus and Poseidon had once been rival suitors for the Nereid Thetis, but when the Fates prophesied that Thetis' son would be greater than his father, both prudently withdrew their suits. Instead, Zeus commanded that she marry a mortal, and this lot fell to Peleus. Thetis, an immortal goddess, was very reluctant to do so, and used her power to change her shape to escape from Peleus. Eventually the god Proteus (who also knew how to change shape) advised him just to persevere - he was to grab hold of Thetis and keep hold of her, no matter how often she changed her shape, and eventually she would relent. Peleus lay in ambush for Thetis on Sepia, the Southernmost promontory of Magnesia, and there he finally conquered her. Although this was a happy occasion for him, it would be the source of woe for the rest of mankind. The gods were invited as guests to the wedding party of Peleus and Thetis, and it was at this party that the goddess Eris (Strife) set the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite to arguing about which was the most beautiful; this would lead to the judgment of Paris, the abduction of Helen, and finally the Trojan War. All that was in the future, however.

    Thetis gave Peleus a strong son, Achilles (the son who was to be mightier than his father). Remembering Chiron, the wise centaur, he gave the boy to him for his education, since Achilles' wild spirit needed to be tamed in order for him to use his strength responsibly. Peleus himself then led an army (with Jason the Argonaut as his ally) against Iolcus, where he finally captured Queen Astydamia. As a punishment for her wrongdoing and injuries against him, Peleus severed her limb from limb and led his army through the middle of her remains as he entered the city. Thus Iolcus was added to his dominion. It is at this point in Peleus' life that the action of Aristeia begins.

    Peleus was too old to travel to the Trojan War by the time it eventually broke out, but his son Achilles went in his stead. While Achilles, Patroclus and Phoenix were fighting around Troy, Acastus took the opportunity to win back control of Iolcus and even succeeded in driving Peleus out of Phthia. Achilles' son Neoptolemus heard about Acastus' actions when he returned from the Trojan War (Achilles had died during the fighting), but he was not able to restore him to power as he had hoped because he was killed at Delphi by Agamemnon's son Orestes. Peleus was grief-stricken, having lost his royal power, his son and his grandson. Thetis, however, took pity on Peleus, and granted him immortality. Ever since then he has lived with her and her nymphs in the lands of the blessed.




    Orestes

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    Orestes is the son of the unhappy marriage of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra. At the beginning of the Trojan War, Orestes was just a young boy, but later in life he would experience the curse of Tantalus as painfully as the other members of his family. For, as Agamemnon left Mycenae to fight the Trojans so as to recover Helen for his brother Menelaus, Orestes' mother Clytaemnestra began to have an affair with Aegisthus. Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes, who had been Atreus' bitter rival for the throne of Mycenae (and also his brother). Not surprisingly then, Aegisthus was desperate for revenge against Agamemnon, the son of Atreus. Clytaemnestra, for her part, desired revenge for the death of her daughter Iphigenia, sacrificed by Agamemnon so that the Achaean fleet could sail to Troy.

    After Agamemnon returned from Troy, Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra murdered him in his bath tub. Aegisthus planned to kill the young Orestes as well, but his older sister Electra smuggled him away from Mycenae to Phocis, to the house of Strophius (married to Anaxibia, the sister of Agamemnon). Orestes became a great friend of Strophius' son Pylades (who would later marry Electra). When Orestes reached full maturity, he travelled to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi and asked whether or not he should avenge his father's murder; the Oracle replied that he should. And so Orestes and Pylades secretly left Phocis and sneaked back into Mycenae. When they were on the outskirts of the city, they came across a small country house where Electra was living. There the three began to concoct a conspiracy, and Electra brought in an old slave, the former tutor of Agamemnon. The old tutor told them about the lives and routines of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra.

    Eventually, Orestes and Pylades put the plan into action. They approached Aegisthus as he was sacrificing to the Nymphs and slew him on the spot. The royal guards were standing around him, but when they recognised Orestes, rather than attacking him, they applauded and acclaimed him as the true king. Later on, Clytaemnestra was lured into Electra's country house, where Orestes pounced on her and stabbed her. Nonetheless, since she was his mother, he had to hold a cloak over his eyes as he committed the deed. Soon afterwards, he became tortured by guilt, which was being stirred up inside him by the avenging Furies. The Furies chased him across Achaea, first to Troezen, and then to the Oracle of Apollo in Delphi. In the end, he travelled to Athens to stand trial for matricide at the court of the Areopagus. The votes were equally in favour of punishment and acquittal, but the goddess Athena came and cast her vote for acquittal.




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    Incredible, absolutely beautiful!

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    They are incredilbe!!Perfect!!!!

    I am crazy to see them in battle

    Are you going to release Aristeia tomorrow?
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    Depends what time zone you are in.

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    Mine is gtm -3

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    We are going to try our damndest to release on the night (GMT) of the 22nd Feb 2010

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    there is no way to put the link earlier? i have very slow connection.

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    There is no link at the moment, I'm going to ask aradan to make an installer tomorrow afternoon.

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    hmm i think i have to let the download going at night

    I hate my Internet 30 kbts.s

    as you said before is 500mb gonna take 7 hour maybe 8.

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    amazing work people!!! i love it! i am a fan of Ajax!
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    hmm i think i have to let the download going at night

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    Oh wow, it will take you a week to download Aristeia lol, it will be around 440MB

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    holy mother

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    Poor Ajax...

    And what did I tell you about previews!?!!!

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    lol u havent got a gun to kill urself tho and its only 1 nite so ul live lol
    'there'll always be another war'
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    also anyone else here up for a game online wen its realesed
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    They look fantastic - particularly like Idomeneus!




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    [QUOTE=ROFL Copter;6815221]Poor Ajax...


    I paid 10 buck for my fathers internet for 1 week.In 1 hour the download will be finished

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    Lol, Peleus looks like the Captain from Star Treek

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    Oh...right, he DOES look like Patrick Stewart.

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