The Iliad

By Butler, Samuel

Book Id: WPLBN0000674416
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 1.05 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Iliad
Author:	Butler, Samuel
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Butler, B. S. (n.d.). The Iliad. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
Excerpt: 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.