Achaeans return to camp; Achilles organises elaborate funeral, and Myrmidons lament for own losses; Hector is left desecrated in dust; Men eat funeral feast, but Achilles won't wash blood off body until Patroclus' burial is complete; Achilles falls asleep due to exhaustion; Patroclus' ghost appears in night, asking to complete his funeral so he could pass into Land of Dead, and asks their bones we buried together so they aren't seperated; Achilles agrees, and tries to embrace Patroclus, yet cannot as he is a ghost; Achaean force led by Meriones cuts timber for Patroclus' funeral pyre, and begin building it; Massive sacrifice is made to gods including twelve captured Trojans by Achilles; Patroclus' pyre doesn't burn until Achilles prays to gods of west and north winds and Iris deliver's his prayer, setting the pyre ablaze; Patroclus' bones are collected and placed in urn, and a burial mound is built; Achilles asks to be built in same tomb; Achilles oversees funeral games in friend's memory; First event is chariot race with rich prizes for victors; Eumelus, Diomedes, Menelaus, Antilochus, and Meriones participate in race; Apollo is still angry with Diomedes so knocks his whip out of his hand but Athena gives it back; Eumelus is most famous driver but Athena breaks is yoke, allowing Diomedes the lead as drivers approach the race's turn; Antilochus, despite slow horse, outmaneuvers Menelaus on narrow track; Nearing finish line, Idomeneus spots Diomedes coming, but Little Ajax argues that Eumelus is first; Achilles calms quarreling captains; Diomedes win race, followed by Antilochus and Menelaus; Eumelus get a prize for bad luck and Menelaus makes Antilochus swear he didn't commit a foul; Antilochus doesn't swear, but Menelaus lets him have the prize anyway; Second event is boxing match, with more prizes; Warrior Epeus is victor, a boxing specialist; Third event is wrestling, where Great Ajax's strength versus Odysseu's knowledge of holds ends in a tie, so they share the prizes; Fourth event if foot race with Odysseus, Little Ajax and Antilochus; Ajax is winning but Athena causes him to slip, making him second and Antilochus last; Fifth even is duelling in full armour where Great Ajax and Diomedes are chosen; Both fight but are sepeated before injuries; Diomedes is declared winner by Achilles; Sixth event is iron lump throwing, with captain Polypoetes winning; Seventh event is archery, to shoot a dove tied to cord, where Meriones wins and Teucer coming second due to not praying to Apollo; Last, eighth, event is spear throwing, where Achilles intercedes and Agamemnon is automatically awarded first prize