Homer - The Iliad - Richmond Lattimore
University Of Chicago Press, 2011
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Excerpts:
- 1.1:
SING, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus
and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the
Achaians,
hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls
of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting
of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished
since that time when first there stood in division of conflict
Atreus’ son the lord of men and brilliant Achilleus.
What god was it then set them together in bitter collision?