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Iliad | Essential Passages by Theme: Wrath

Essential Passage 1: Book I

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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Homer begins his tale with an invocation to the gods, specifically the Muse. He points to the fact that it is the...

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