Nonfiction · c. 750 BC
The Iliad
Homer · translated by Samuel Butler
A quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the withdrawal of the greatest of the Greek warriors from the fighting, the death of his friend Patroclus, and his return to kill Hector — the Iliad tells a few weeks of a ten-year war and is the beginning of European literature.
Samuel Butler’s prose translation of 1898 aims at plainness and speed, as his Odyssey does; he wanted a reader without Greek to follow the fighting and the argument at the same pace, and he refused the archaic diction that had made the poem sound like scripture. The twenty-four books are given here complete.
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