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TROY

Agamemnon: [approaches king] Good day for the crows. 

Triopas: Remove your army from my land. 

Agamemnon: Why, I like your land, I think we'll stay. I like your soldiers too. 

Triopas: They won't fight for you. 

Agamemnon: That's what the Messenians said, and the Acardians, and the Opeians, now they all fight for me. 

Triopas: You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon. It's too big, even for you. 

Agamemnon: I don't want to watch another massacre. Let's settle this war in the old manner. Your best fighter against my best. 

Triopas: And if my man wins? 

Agamemnon: We'll leave Thessaly for good. 

Triopas: Boagrius! 

[cheers from Thessalian army. Boagrius comes out from the centre of the army] 

Agamemnon: Achilles! 

[silence] 

Triopas: Boagrius has this effect on many heroes. 

Agamemnon: Be careful who you insult, old king. 

Greek Soldier: My king, Achilles is not with the army. 

Agamemnon: Where is he? 

Greek Soldier: I sent a boy to look for him. 

Agamemnon: I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant. 

Hector: You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home. 

Agamemnon: We've come too far, Prince Hector. 

Menelaus: Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, and then steal his wife in the middle of the night? 

Paris: The sun was shining when your wife left you. 

Menelaus: She's up there, watching, isn't she? Good. I want her to watch you die. 

Agamemnon: Not yet, brother. Look around you, Hector. I brought all the warriors of Greece to your shores. 

Nestor: You can still save Troy, young prince. 

Agamemnon: I have two wishes. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. Second, Troy must submit to my command, to fight for me whenever I call. 

Hector: You want me to look upon your army and tremble? Well I see them. I see 50,000 men...