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Iliad

Homér Original title Ἰλιάς

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

“Cursed is the man, and void of law and right,
Unworthy property, unworthy light,
Unfit for public rule, or private care,
That wretch, that monster, that delights in war:
Whose lust is murder, and whose horrid joy
To tear his country, and his kind destroy!”

Homér Iliad

IX. 63–64 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“So here the twins were laid low at Aeneas' hands,
down they crashed like lofty pine trees axed.”

Homér Iliad

V. 559–560 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“He spoke, the son of Kronos, and nodded his head with the dark brows,
and the immortally anointed hair of the great god
swept from his divine head, and all Olympos was shaken.”

Homér Iliad

I. 528–530 (tr. Richmond Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“A glorious death is his
Who for his country falls.”

Homér Iliad

XV. 496–497 (tr. Lord Derby); spoken by Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there
of every kind, the range of words is wide, and their variance.”

Homér Iliad

XX. 248–249 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“If only strife could die from the lives of gods and men”

Homér Iliad

XVIII. 107–110 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Achilles.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Context: If only strife could die from the lives of gods and men
and anger that drives the sanest man to flare in outrage—
bitter gall, sweeter than dripping streams of honey,
that swarms in people's chests and blinds like smoke.

“Dreams come from Zeus.”

Homér Iliad

I. 63.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles”

Homér Iliad

I. 1–5 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Context: Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,
murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,
hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls,
great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion,
feasts for the dogs and birds.