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Identifier: popestranslation00home (find matches)
Title: Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad, books I, VI, XXII, XXIV;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Homer Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 Lawton, William Cranston, 1853-1941
Subjects: Achilles (Greek mythology) Epic poetry, Greek
Publisher: New York and Chicago, Globe school book co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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HOMER.After the bust in Sans-Souci Palace, Potsdam. THE ILIAD OF HOMER. Translated by Mr. Pope. Te sequor, 0 Graise gentis Decus! inque tuis mineFixa pedum pono pressis vestigia signis:.Non ita certandi cupidus, quam propter Amorem,Quod Te imitari aveo. — Lucret. LONDON: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott, betweenthe Temple-Gates, 1715. MAP ILLUSTRATING HOMERS ILIAD
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R.D.SERVOSS, THE ILIAD BOOK I THE ARGUMENT THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON In the war of Troy, the Greeks, having;sacked some of the neigh-bouring towns, and taken from thence two beautiful captives, Chry-seis and Briseis, allotted the first to Agamemnon, and the last toAchilles. Chryses, the father of Chryseis, and priest of Apollo,comes to the Grecian camp to ransom her; with which the actionof the poem opens, in the tenth year of the siege. The priest being-refused and insolently dismissed by Agamemnon, entreats for ven-geance from his god, who inflicts a pestilence on the Greeks. Achil-les calls a council, and encourages Calchas to declare the cause ofit, who attributes it to the refusal of Chryseis. The king, beingobliged to send back his captive, enters into a furious contest withAchilles, which Nestor pacifies; however, as he had the absolutecommand of the army, he seizes on Briseis in revenge. Achillesin discontent withdraws himself and his forces from the rest ofthe
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