Iliad Bot

[ i hate having to say this but the new twitter API announcement unfortunately means the end for iliad_bot :( this has been a passion project of mine for years and im glad so many of you enjoyed it too <3 it will continue to post until the end that is death envelops its eyes ]

Eloquent Nestor, the clear-voiced orator from Pylos whose speech flowed sweeter than honey off his tongue.

'Patroclus, do not be indignant with me if you learn, down in the halls of Hades, that I let his father have godlike Hector back. The ransom he paid me was a worthy one and I will see that you receive your proper share of it.'

So he spoke in prayer, and Phoebus Apollo heard him and came down in fury from the heights of Olympus, his bow and quiver on his back. With every movement of the furious god, the arrows rattled on his shoulders, and his descent was like nightfall.

'Destiny has left two courses open to me on my journey to Hades. If I stay here and fight round Ilium, there is no home-coming for me, but there will be eternal glory instead. If I go back to the land of my fathers, my heroic glory will be forfeit, but my life will be long.'