That Chryses walked away from the hollow ships where he had been reprimanded (to someplace from where he sailed back to Chryse, as Odysseus would do a little later, when he returned Chryseis to her father), at once garbles the narrative line putting it at odds with a sense of plot and continuity, for, in the common understanding for the scenario of the Iliad set in an Asia Minor context at the entrance to the Dardanelles, it is unclear where the invading Danaan forces are initially located since they later board their ships (the Catalogue of Ships, II, 494–759) and launch a final naval assault on the Scamandrian delta. RETURN TO TEXT