The poem begins with a plague inflicted on the Greeks by Apollo when Agamemnon refuses to return Chryseis, daughter of Chryses. After nine days, Achilles decides to hold an assembly to resolve the problem, Agamemnon decides to return Chryseis, but he takes Briseis from Achilles. Insulted by Agamemnon, Achilles decides to stop fighting for Agamemnon and he and his troops return home. This tells us that Achilles has difficulty controlling his pride and the rage that rises when someone insults his pride. It is just after the death of Patroclus that Achilles turns his rage towards Hector and finds