470 had sent a separate batch for Agamemnon 600 and Menelaus, sons of Atreus— some unmixed wine, a thousand servings of it. The long-haired Greeks made trades to get that wine. Some traded bronze for it, some gleaming iron, some cattle hides and some, whole living cows, and others traded wine for human captives, taken in war. They made a lavish feast. All night the long-haired Greeks were banqueting. The Trojans and their allies did the same inside the town. And all night, clever Zeus 610 was plotting pain for them, and thundering, and rumbling with a terrifying noise. Pale fear seized hold of
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Zeus is always plotting
