Homer - The Iliad - Samuel Butler
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Dover Publications, 1999
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Excerpts:
- 1.1:
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought
countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send
hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and
vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on
which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell
out with one another.
And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel?