Scattered by a storm, the Achaean captains disperse with their armies to their various homes. In Mycenae, Agamemnon, faced with reassembling the army for the assault on Troy, argues with his wife, Klytemnestra, and we meet his daughters Iphigenia, Elektra, and Chrysothemis. Meanwhile, on Skyros, Achilles is caught in the rising tension between Deidamia and Patroklus and realizes that he must make a fateful decision.