Homer (translated by Samuel Butler) · c. 750 BCE
The wrath of Achilles before Troy (Samuel Butler's prose translation, 1898). Read The Iliad by Homer (translated by Samuel Butler) page by page and explore…
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.
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