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Achaean mules

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Canonical name
Achaean mules
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None
Kind
Animal
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
The specific mules struck first by Apollo among the Achaean host.

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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

2
Ida1 observation
·Direct

The Achaean mules reached the heights of Ida with the woodcutting party.

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before them went the mules. Up hill and down dale did they go, by straight ways and crooked, and when they reached the heights of many-fountained Ida
plain of Troy1 observation
·Direct

The Achaean mules made their way through the brushwood onto the plain of Troy.

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They split the trees and bound them behind the mules, which then wended their way as they best could through the thick brushwood on to the plain.

Claims

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·Direct

The Achaean mules are Apollo’s first living targets.

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First he smote their mules and their hounds

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1
·Direct
their mules

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 6

Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him. He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.