The Iliad of Homer, translated by Lang, Leaf, and Myers
Done into English Prose by
Contents
- Prefatory Note
- Note to Revised Edition
- Notes to the Reader
- How Agamemnon and Achilles fell out at the siege of Troy; and Achilles withdrew himself from battle, and won from Zeus a pledge that his wrong should be avenged on Agamemnon and the Achaians.
- How Zeus beguiled Agamemnon by a dream; and of the assembly of the Achaians and their marching forth to battle. And of the names and numbers of the hosts of the Achaians and the Trojans.
- How Menelaos and Paris fought in single combat; and Aphrodite rescued Paris. And how Helen and Priam beheld the Achaian host from the walls of Troy.
- How Pandaros wounded Menelaos by treachery; and Agamemnon exhorted his chief captains to battle.
- How Diomedes by his great valour made havoc of the Trojans, and wounded even Aphrodite and Ares by the help of Athene.
- How Diomedes and Glaukos, being about to fight, were known to each other, and parted in friendliness. And how Hector returning to the city bade farewell to Andromache his wife.
- Of the single combat between Alas and Hector, and of the burying of the dead, and the building of a wall about the Achaian ships.
- How Zeus bethought him of his promise to avenge Achilles' wrong on Agamemnon; and therefore bade the gods refrain from war, and gave victory to the Trojans.
- How Agamemnon sent an embassage to Achilles, beseeching him to be appeased; and how Achilles denied him.
- How Diomedes and Odysseus slew Dolon, a spy of the Trojans, and themselves spied on the Trojan camp, and took the horses of Rhesos, the Thracian king.
- Despite the glorious deeds of Agamemnon, the Trojans press hard on the Achaians, and the beginning of evil comes on Patroklos.
- How the Trojans and allies broke within the wall of the Achaians.
- Poseidon stirreth up the Achaians to defend the ships. The valour of Idomeneus.
- How Sleep and Hera beguiled Zeus to slumber on the heights of Ida, and Poseidon spurred on the Achaians to resist Hector, and how Hector was wounded.
- Zeus awakening, biddeth Apollo revive Hector, and restore the fortunes of the Trojans. Fire is thrown on the ship of Protesilaos.
- How Patroklos fought in the armour of Achilles, and drove the Trojans from the ships, but was slain at last by Hector.
- Of the battle around the body of Patroklos.
- How Achilles grieved for Patroklos, and how Thetis asked for him new armour of Hephaistos; and of the making of the armour.
- How Achilles and Agamemnon were reconciled before the assembly of the Achaians, and Achilles went forth with them to battle.
- How Achilles made havoc among the men of Troy.
- How Achilles fought with the River, and chased the men of Troy within their gates.
- How Achilles fought with Hector, and slew him, and brought his body to the ships.
- Of the funeral of Patroklos, and the funeral games.
- How the body of Hector was ransomed, and of his funeral.
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