# Achilles

Author: Becker, Karl Friedrich, 1777-1806; Upton, George P. (George Putnam), 1834-1919 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62453

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Achilles+Becker&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Troy was a small portion of that section of Asia Minor which was later called Phrygia. Its northern coast touched the entrance to the Hellespont. It was very densely populated and had, besides many little plantations, villages, and settlements of farmers or herdsmen, a large city with a strong wall, towers, and gates. Homer never called the city Troy, but always Ilios or Ilium. The surroundings he calls Troy and the inhabitants Trojans, after an ancestor named Tros, who was said to have founded the city. He describes them as a bold, enterprising people, who lived in a high degree of comfort and practised many arts of which the Europeans of that time were ignorant.

## Chapters

- [Chapter XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/achilles-62453/chapters/13/index.md)