they found him cheering himself with music. He was playing a well-tuned lyre of ornate craftsmanship, whose bridge was silver, which he got as war loot 240 when he destroyed the town of Eetion. It brought him joy. He sang heroic stories of famous men.
Agamemnon doesn't even think to offer Achilles a musical instrument, offering only obvious gifts: women, land, crops, money, power, worship
Achilles, of all people, is Homer. He is a bard.
