1. Achilles!Copy !req
2. Over here, stable keeper!Copy !req
3. Barbarian horse worshipper!Copy !req
4. Out of breath so soon,
my light-foot princeling?Copy !req
5. Your friend Patrocolus fled me further,
and made better sport!Copy !req
6. Murderer! Patrocolus was a boy.Copy !req
7. A boy? Well he died like a dog, whimpering
after his master Achilles!Copy !req
8. Ha! Let me send you to
him where he waits in Hades.Copy !req
9. Let me throw the dog a bone or two!Copy !req
10. What? So anxious to be gone?Copy !req
11. I would not keep you for the world!Copy !req
12. Your bones would be the meatier, TrojanCopy !req
13. though meat a trifle rough at that.Copy !req
14. Well all's one - they will whiten well
enough in the sun!Copy !req
15. Run, Achilles! RunCopy !req
16. Run a little more, before you die!Copy !req
17. What sort of people are they, Doctor?Copy !req
18. Oh, I'm not sure, my child.Copy !req
19. You'll notice they're
wearing Grecian costumes.Copy !req
20. They don't seem to have notices us.Copy !req
21. That's hardly surprising
in the circumstances.Copy !req
22. Why do you suppose they fight?Copy !req
23. I haven't the remotest idea, my boy.Copy !req
24. No doubt their reasons
will be entirely adequate.Copy !req
25. Yes, I think I...Copy !req
26. perhaps I'd better go and
ask them where we are.Copy !req
27. Doctor,
be careful! They look terribly fierce.Copy !req
28. Oh, what nonsense!Copy !req
29. If you take notice of themCopy !req
30. I think they're doing more
talking than they are fighting.Copy !req
31. I think I'd better go and
ask them where we are.Copy !req
32. Doctor, you can't! You know if
you go out there by yourself you'll g...Copy !req
33. Now you stay here, my dear,
and look after that ankle.Copy !req
34. Wouldn't it be better if I went?Copy !req
35. Not at all, young man.Copy !req
36. You stay here and keep an eye on Vicki.Copy !req
37. Besides, I don't think your present
humour is fitting for the occasion.Copy !req
38. You know, I don't think they'd
appreciate your kind of sarcasm.Copy !req
39. The gods of my people,
Hector, are not lightly mocked.Copy !req
40. They are terrible!Copy !req
41. And Troy itself is doomed to fall
at their bidding... even as you are.Copy !req
42. You cannot stand against them.Copy !req
43. You pretend that old Father Zeus will
descend to Earth and take Troy for you.Copy !req
44. I guarantee to trim his beard for him if
he dare attempt it!Copy !req
45. Beware - the voice of Zeus, Hector!Copy !req
46. Beware the anger of Olympus!Copy !req
47. Who am I to fear the thunderCopy !req
48. you superstitiousCopy !req
49. dark-dodging decadent!Copy !req
50. Hear me, Zeus!Copy !req
51. Accept from me the promised
light of your cringing servant Achilles!Copy !req
52. Or else, I challenge youCopy !req
53. descend to Earth and save him!Copy !req
54. Zeus! Forgive me.Copy !req
55. Stop! You must not kick
a man when he is down...Copy !req
56. You have killed this poor fellow!Copy !req
57. Oh, but in your name.Copy !req
58. In my name, indeed! Get up!Copy !req
59. Get up, I tell you!Copy !req
60. This is terrible.Copy !req
61. If Zeus bids me to rise...Copy !req
62. What is this? What is it you take me for?Copy !req
63. The father of the gods
and ruler of the world.Copy !req
64. What! Do you really?Copy !req
65. And who might you be, may I ask?Copy !req
66. AchillesCopy !req
67. Mightiest of warriors, greatest in battle,
humblest of your servants.Copy !req
68. Well, if I may say so, you're not very
humble, are you, eh?Copy !req
69. Yes, I... I think I know you, yes.Copy !req
70. And this, er,
this friend of yours must be, er...Copy !req
71. Hector. Prince of Troy.Copy !req
72. Sent to Hades for blasphemy
against the gods of Greece.Copy !req
73. Blasphemy? I'm sure he didn't mean it.Copy !req
74. He threatened to trim your beard should
you descend to Earth!Copy !req
75. Oh, did he now?Copy !req
76. Well, if you notice, I have no beard!Copy !req
77. If you had appeared to me in your true formCopy !req
78. I would have been truly
blinded by your radiance.Copy !req
79. It is well known that when you come amongst
us you adopt many different forms.Copy !req
80. Oh, do I?Copy !req
81. To Europa, you appeared as a bull.Copy !req
82. To Leda, as a swan.Copy !req
83. To me... in the guise of an old beggar.Copy !req
84. I beg your pardon! I
do nothing of the kind!Copy !req
85. Oh, but still your glory shines through!Copy !req
86. Oh, indeed.
Indeed so, yes, so I should hope.Copy !req
87. Yes, well thank you, I'm glad to meet you.Copy !req
88. Now, if you will excuse me,
I must get back to my temple.Copy !req
89. Attend to his funeral.Copy !req
90. Oh stop! You must not go!Copy !req
91. Do you realise whom you are addressing?Copy !req
92. Forgive me, father Zeus,
I... I spoke hastily.Copy !req
93. Then do not hinder meCopy !req
94. or I will strike you with a thunderbolt!Copy !req
95. I must brave even the wrath of Zeus,
and implore you to remain.Copy !req
96. Well, I don't see why I should.Copy !req
97. I have many other commitments,
you must understand...Copy !req
98. And one of them lies here.Copy !req
99. In the camp of Agamemnon, our general.Copy !req
100. Oh, hear me out, I pray!Copy !req
101. For ten long years now we have laid siege
to Troy, and still they defy us.Copy !req
102. Come!Copy !req
103. And where's he off to now?Copy !req
104. It's a fine time to go looking at the view!Copy !req
105. After all, that's why he went out there,
to find out where we are.Copy !req
106. Anyway, that man looks quite friendly now.Copy !req
107. He's probably showing him
the way to the nearest town.Copy !req
108. Hmm, I wonder...Copy !req
109. I think I'd better try and find
some more suitable clothes.Copy !req
110. There they sit, secure behind their wallsCopy !req
111. whilst we rot in their summers and starve
in their crack-bone winters.Copy !req
112. What's this, Achilles?Copy !req
113. So far from camp,
all unprotected from a prisoner?Copy !req
114. Odysseus, this is no prisoner.Copy !req
115. - Certainly not.
- Not yet a prisoner?Copy !req
116. You should have called for assistance.
We would not like to lose you.Copy !req
117. Come, let us escort you homewards!Copy !req
118. Night might fall and
find thee from thy tent!Copy !req
119. I wouldn't stand for that if I were you!Copy !req
120. Are, but then, old fellow, you are not
the Lord Achilles.Copy !req
121. He is not the one to look for trouble,
are you, boy?Copy !req
122. Have a care, pirate!Copy !req
123. Are there no Trojan throats to slit, that
you dare tempt my sword?Copy !req
124. Throats enough, I grant you.Copy !req
125. Some half score Trojans will not whistle
easy tonight - but what of you?Copy !req
126. Oh, but a trifle. I met Prince Hector.Copy !req
127. Here he lies.Copy !req
128. Zeus!Copy !req
129. Was instrumental.Copy !req
130. No doubt, no doubt.Copy !req
131. But what a year is this for plague;
Even the strongest might fall!Copy !req
132. Prince Hector, huh,
that he should come to this.Copy !req
133. You met him here, you say, as he lay dying?Copy !req
134. I met him, Odysseus, in single combat.Copy !req
135. Oh yes, it's true!Copy !req
136. And raced him round the
walls till down he fell exhausted!Copy !req
137. A famous victory!Copy !req
138. I met him face to face, I say!Copy !req
139. Battled with him for an hour or moreCopy !req
140. until my greater strength overcame him.Copy !req
141. Bravo. But tell me,
Lightfoot, what of Zeus?Copy !req
142. You say he intervened, and then...?Copy !req
143. Why, there he stands!
And listens to your mockery.Copy !req
144. Oh yes, I find it most interesting.Copy !req
145. Oh come, Achilles!Copy !req
146. Oh, forgive him, father Zeus!Copy !req
147. He is but a rough and simple sailor.Copy !req
148. Aye, very rough, but scarce as simple
as you seem to think.Copy !req
149. What have we here?Copy !req
150. Steven...Copy !req
151. he's coming in!Copy !req
152. No, the Doctor will stop him.Copy !req
153. I must go out and help.Copy !req
154. No, don't!Copy !req
155. Just a minute...Copy !req
156. Here.Copy !req
157. Take this,
and wait behind the door, hm?Copy !req
158. The temple of Zeus, you say?Copy !req
159. A trifle modest, is it notCopy !req
160. for so powerful a god!Copy !req
161. This is my travelling temple.Copy !req
162. Being small, it's convenient.Copy !req
163. You shall not enter.Copy !req
164. Certainly not!Copy !req
165. In any case, I must be off.Copy !req
166. Oh, then will you not stay with us?Copy !req
167. No, I, er...Copy !req
168. What! You will to the Grecian camp.Copy !req
169. If indeed you be Zeus, we have need
of your assistance.Copy !req
170. Now do not cower there, lads!Copy !req
171. Zeus is on our side,
so Agamemnon keeps insisting.Copy !req
172. Bear him up, and let us carry
him in triumph to the camp!Copy !req
173. I am quite capable of walking!Copy !req
174. Odysseus, I claim the honour to escort him.Copy !req
175. Let him walk to camp with me.Copy !req
176. You shall have honour enough.Copy !req
177. And maybe we shall
have a little of the truth.Copy !req
178. Father Zeus, we await you!Copy !req
179. We crave the pleasure
of your company at supperCopy !req
180. and perhaps a tale or two of Aphrodite, eh?Copy !req
181. I refuse to enter into
any kind of vulgar bawdry.Copy !req
182. Then you shall tell us why...
we find you lurking near our lines.Copy !req
183. That should prove equally entertaining.Copy !req
184. Take him, lads!Copy !req
185. The two of you there, take up this carrion!Copy !req
186. Have a care, do not touch me!Copy !req
187. You will pay for this, Odysseus.Copy !req
188. Ha, will I?Copy !req
189. We shall see.Copy !req
190. This much must we do for the Lord Achilles,
lest none believe his story!Copy !req
191. You will not laugh so loud, I think,
when Agamemnon hears of this.Copy !req
192. I am going after him.
I'm sure he's been taken prisoner.Copy !req
193. Oh, come on, the big man was laughing!Copy !req
194. It didn't look as though
the Doctor made a joke.Copy !req
195. Anyway, we don't even know where we are.Copy !req
196. Well, the Doctor said they were GreeksCopy !req
197. we're probably in Greece.Copy !req
198. Oh, but that would be wonderful,
wouldn't it?Copy !req
199. We might meet the heroes, we might...Copy !req
200. Those men who carried off
the Doctor wouldn't be heroesCopy !req
201. or anything like them.Copy !req
202. That's why I've got to go and get him.Copy !req
203. Well I'm coming with you.Copy !req
204. And how far do you think
you can get on that ankle?Copy !req
205. It's not so bad now, I... I'll manage!Copy !req
206. No, you stay here.Copy !req
207. Rest your ankle, watch the scanners,
you'll be perfectly safeCopy !req
208. when you see the Doctor and me coming,
open the doorsCopy !req
209. but not otherwise!Copy !req
210. But Steven we mustn't...Copy !req
211. I don't have time to argueCopy !req
212. I want to get to the Doctor
before they cut his head off.Copy !req
213. Now stay here.Copy !req
214. Goodbye!Copy !req
215. I hope you find the Doctor, that's all.Copy !req
216. Now, you drink too much, Menelaus.Copy !req
217. I've told you about it before.Copy !req
218. Why can't you learn to
behave like a king instead of a...Copy !req
219. dropsical old camp
follower? Have a little dignity.Copy !req
220. Try to remember that you're my brother,
can't you?Copy !req
221. One of the reasons I drink, Agamemnon, is
to forget that I am your brother.Copy !req
222. Another is this ridiculous
Trojan expeditionCopy !req
223. we've been here for ten years!Copy !req
224. I want to go home.Copy !req
225. Besides, I'm not getting any younger.Copy !req
226. You won't get any older if you talk to me
like that, brother or no brother.Copy !req
227. What's the matter with you, man?
Don't you want to get Helen back?Copy !req
228. Don't you... don't you
want to see your wife again?Copy !req
229. Quite frankly, no. If you must knowCopy !req
230. I was heartily glad to see the back of her.Copy !req
231. You mustn't talk like
that in front of these.Copy !req
232. It wasn't the first time she's allowed
herself to be... abducted.Copy !req
233. I can't keep on going off to the ends of
the Earth to get her back, it...Copy !req
234. it makes me a laughing stock.Copy !req
235. Now you knew perfectly well what she was
like before you married her.Copy !req
236. Besides, this is a question
of honour to get her back.Copy !req
237. Family honour, don't you understand?Copy !req
238. Not... not to mention the trade routes
through the Bosphorus, of course.Copy !req
239. What have they got to do with it?Copy !req
240. It isn't enough for you that you
control the Achean League, is it?Copy !req
241. Now you want to take
over Asia Minor as wellCopy !req
242. only King Priam of Troy stands in your way.Copy !req
243. May I remind you that these ambitions
would have been servedCopy !req
244. just as well if you had killed Paris in
single combatCopy !req
245. - as you were expected to?
- Yes, but...Copy !req
246. Don't interrupt,
Priam would of let this contest settleCopy !req
247. - the issue between us
- Yes, but...Copy !req
248. Don't blame me because you've landed
us into a full scale war!Copy !req
249. Yes, but I did challenge Paris,
if you rememberCopy !req
250. ten years ago! Fellow wouldn't accept.Copy !req
251. Huh! He's just about
as cowardly as you are.Copy !req
252. For the last time, I am not a coward.Copy !req
253. Well in that case, why don't you
challenge someone else?Copy !req
254. - Anyone...
- Challenge Hector.Copy !req
255. Hector...?
Hector? Are you mad?Copy !req
256. Why, that would be suicide!Copy !req
257. Well you don't know until you've tried it,
do you?Copy !req
258. You know,
I think that's a very good idea of yours!Copy !req
259. Oh. So you want to see me killed,
is that it?Copy !req
260. Is nothing sacred to you?Copy !req
261. A brother's honour.Copy !req
262. I hold that more sacred than anything else.Copy !req
263. That's why I shall issue the challenge in
the morning, on your behalf.Copy !req
264. I... on my behalf?
My king! Hector is dead!Copy !req
265. What! How did this happen?Copy !req
266. This very day.Copy !req
267. I slew him after an hour
or more of single combat.Copy !req
268. Oh, you did. Oh dear.Copy !req
269. There's another good idea wasted.Copy !req
270. What do you mean, wasted?Copy !req
271. Here have I been, fight...Copy !req
272. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!Copy !req
273. It's only that Menelaus was just
about to challenge him.Copy !req
274. Now don't think I'm not
pleased with what you've done.Copy !req
275. I am! Sit down. Tell us all about it.Copy !req
276. But I have other, more important news.Copy !req
277. And there isn't much time.Copy !req
278. More important than the death of Hector?Copy !req
279. At the height of my battle with Hector,
there came a sudden lightning flash.Copy !req
280. And Zeus appeared before me.Copy !req
281. Zeus? Oh...Copy !req
282. It's all right, he's been listening to too
muc propaganda, haven't you, Achilles?Copy !req
283. You mustn't take so much notice of that.Copy !req
284. Look, I tell you it's true!Copy !req
285. He appeared to me from nowhere in the...Copy !req
286. in the shape of a little old man.Copy !req
287. Oh! Where is he now, this little old Zeus?Copy !req
288. He was about to accompany me here when
Odysseus and his men arrived.Copy !req
289. - They took him prisoner.
- They what!Copy !req
290. Odysseus mocked him.Copy !req
291. Then they seized him and
are bringing him to camp.Copy !req
292. I ran ahead to warn you.Copy !req
293. You did well. Perdition take Odysseus!Copy !req
294. You can't be too careful
in matters like this.Copy !req
295. He may in fact be Zeus.Copy !req
296. Guard! Go find the Lord Odysseus.Copy !req
297. Command his presence here.Copy !req
298. Who dares command Odysseus?Copy !req
299. Well, Agamemnon, is it you?Copy !req
300. Well, we will not quarrel when we
have a guest of such importance.Copy !req
301. Here's this old man - claims to be our
father Zeus, ha!Copy !req
302. You may rise. I am most displeased.Copy !req
303. Who is in command here?Copy !req
304. I have that honour.Copy !req
305. As I have always understoodCopy !req
306. yet this mountebank Odysseus
seems to be a law unto himself.Copy !req
307. He makes fun of his guests,
and laughs at Zeus!Copy !req
308. He will be reprimandedCopy !req
309. if you are indeed who you say you are.Copy !req
310. If I am not a god, how do you account for
my supernatural knowledge, hm?Copy !req
311. Knowledge? Of what?Copy !req
312. I could tell you one or two things that
might surprise you.Copy !req
313. Ah, name one.Copy !req
314. Your wife, for instance,
is unfaithful to you.Copy !req
315. What!Copy !req
316. Everyone knows that!Copy !req
317. I... I've never heard it.Copy !req
318. Everyone, that is,
except you and him, of course!Copy !req
319. Silence! I will not have my wife's
name banded about like that.Copy !req
320. Besides, we have no way of
checking on your slanderous assertionsCopy !req
321. divinely inspired or no.Copy !req
322. What do you advise?Copy !req
323. Then treat me with honour and return me to
my temple, before I really become angry!Copy !req
324. I tell you, Agamemnon,
he has come to help us.Copy !req
325. If I were an enemy,
what could one man do nolne...Copy !req
326. do alone and unarmed do against
the glory that is Greece, hm?Copy !req
327. Glory that is Greece? A neat phrase.Copy !req
328. The man is a spy.Copy !req
329. Deal with him and be briefCopy !req
330. or I shall undertake it for you.Copy !req
331. After I am dead, Odysseus, and only then.Copy !req
332. If you so insist, I shall be most happy to
oblige, Lightfoot!Copy !req
333. Silence! This is time for thought,
not swordplay.Copy !req
334. Well, since my thoughts
are of such little accountCopy !req
335. allow me to withdraw!Copy !req
336. Forgive him,
father Zeus. The man is a boor.Copy !req
337. If you command me, I will deal with him...Copy !req
338. No, no, Achilles, leave him!Copy !req
339. Why try to kill him now when
you are in sight of victory?Copy !req
340. Huh? Do you prophesy as much as that?Copy !req
341. I could almost guarantee it.Copy !req
342. Almost? Oh, not another ten years!Copy !req
343. But first I would like to know,
am I to be treated as a godCopy !req
344. or as an enemy?Copy !req
345. If you kill me now,
it will probably cost you the war.Copy !req
346. Yes, that is so.Copy !req
347. On the other hand,
if we don't kill you and you are a spyCopy !req
348. the same thing might happen.Copy !req
349. I propose to place you under arrest.Copy !req
350. Arrest? But I must return to my TAR...
er, my temple!Copy !req
351. A reverent arrest.Copy !req
352. You must not be offended.Copy !req
353. We shall enjoy the benefit of
your experience and your adviceCopy !req
354. and in return you will
enjoy our hospitality.Copy !req
355. Very well.Copy !req
356. Excellent! Do sit down and have a ham bone.Copy !req
357. Get thee to thy rest.Copy !req
358. Ah, my little Cyclops. What news, hmm?Copy !req
359. The stranger?Copy !req
360. Ah, the other stranger.Copy !req
361. Ah, from the temple? Oh, temple!Copy !req
362. In the camp! You think he is my enemy, eh?Copy !req
363. You have done well.Copy !req
364. Now, my little chatterbox, go back to the
temple, see what happens, hm?Copy !req
365. Get you gone!Copy !req
366. What have we here?Copy !req
367. Another god, perhaps?Copy !req
368. No, I'm just a traveller. I lost my way
and saw the light.Copy !req
369. At least the god ApolloCopy !req
370. to walk invisible past sentries.Copy !req
371. Sentries? I saw no sentries.Copy !req
372. Oh? Then perhaps they are sleeping with
a knife between their ribs.Copy !req
373. Shall we go seek them together?Copy !req
374. Put away your sword, I'm a friend!Copy !req
375. Mm, but a friend of whom?Copy !req
376. What do you mean?Copy !req
377. That... that god who feasts yonder,
that Trojan spy?Copy !req
378. I don't know him.Copy !req
379. Do you not? We shall see! Move!Copy !req
380. Who is this?Copy !req
381. My prisoner, the god Apollo.Copy !req
382. Achilles, will you not worship him?Copy !req
383. He is a Trojan spy, but of such undoubted
divinity he must be spared.Copy !req
384. Are you a Trojan?Copy !req
385. No, of course not!
I'm just a traveller... of a sort.Copy !req
386. Do you know this man?Copy !req
387. Only for what he seems to be.Copy !req
388. An acquaintance from Olympus,
come to meet his father.Copy !req
389. My father?Copy !req
390. I've never seen him before in my life!Copy !req
391. That's enough!Copy !req
392. Take him away, Odysseus.Copy !req
393. Why should I be troubled
with such petty prisoners?Copy !req
394. Cut out his tongue for insolence,
and make an end!Copy !req
395. Softly now!Copy !req
396. All-seeing Zeus, you see into our very
hearts and know their secrets?Copy !req
397. Quite so.Copy !req
398. Then is this man a spy?Copy !req
399. I do not know, and I do not care.Copy !req
400. Shall he then be put to death?Copy !req
401. I think it would be
much safer on the whole.Copy !req
402. Stop! Have you lost your senses?Copy !req
403. Now we have it!Copy !req
404. On second thoughts, you think we should
release him to return to Troy.Copy !req
405. Do not mock me, my Lord Odysseus!Copy !req
406. Would you stain the tent of Agamemnon's...
with a Trojan's blood?Copy !req
407. I claim this man as a sacrifice to Olympus!Copy !req
408. Bring him to my temple in the plainCopy !req
409. at sunrise in the morning,
and I will show you a miracle.Copy !req
410. A miracle!Copy !req
411. Oh, that would be most satisfactory.Copy !req
412. Convincing proof, I would say.Copy !req
413. What sort of miracle would...Copy !req
414. I will strike him with a bolt from heaven!Copy !req
415. Very spectacular, ha!Copy !req
416. Ah, what's this? Who's this?Copy !req
417. Release him.Copy !req
418. All right, Odysseus, who is this man?Copy !req
419. My Cyclops, my little servant. So...Copy !req
420. Well, can't he speak?Copy !req
421. Alas no more.Copy !req
422. For once he spoke too loud for comfort,
and stammered on a knife.Copy !req
423. But he speaks to me.Copy !req
424. Get you gone and wait for me.Copy !req
425. Thunder at the temple tomorrow,
did you say?Copy !req
426. Yes, I did.Copy !req
427. Our weather is so unpredictable.Copy !req
428. If there is no thunder on the plain, I have
a sword will serve for two as well as one.Copy !req
429. Your "temple", as you call it,
has disappeared!Copy !req
430. - Disappeared?
- Vanished...Copy !req
431. into thin air!Copy !req