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Lying Dream

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Lying Dream
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Individual
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The dream personally summoned and instructed by Jove.

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Claims

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·Direct

The Lying Dream is personally summoned and ordered by Jove to enter Agamemnon’s tent and urge an immediate arming under a false promise of victory.

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“Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans. In the end he deemed it would be best to send a lying dream to King Agamemnon; so he called one to him and said to it, ‘Lying Dream, go to the ships of the Achaeans, into the tent of Agamemnon, and say to him word for word as I now bid you. Tell him to get the Achaeans instantly under arms, for he shall take Troy. There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans.’”
·Disguised

The Lying Dream reaches the sleeping Agamemnon and hovers over his head in the likeness of Nestor.

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“The dream went when it had heard its message, and soon reached the ships of the Achaeans. It sought Agamemnon son of Atreus and found him in his tent, wrapped in a profound slumber. It hovered over his head in the likeness of Nestor, son of Neleus, whom Agamemnon honoured above all his councillors, and said:—”
·Reported

Agamemnon reports that the heavenly dream’s face and figure resembled Nestor and that it hovered over his head.

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“I have had a dream from heaven in the dead of night, and its face and figure resembled none but Nestor’s. It hovered over my head”

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·Direct
“Lying Dream”

Passage preview

Book 2 · Passage 1

Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans. In the end he deemed it would be best to send a lying dream to King Agamemnon; so he called one to him and said to it, ‘Lying Dream, go to the ships of the Achaeans, into the tent of Agamemnon, and say to him word for word as I now bid you. Tell him to get the Achaeans instantly under arms, for he shall take Troy. There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans.’