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The Iliad
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In the tenth year of the Trojan War, a quarrel between Agamemnon and the great warrior Achilles over a captive woman sets off a chain of disaster. Achilles withdraws from the fighting in anger, the Trojans led by Hector drive the Greeks back to their ships, and the gods themselves take sides. Only the death of his beloved friend Patroclus brings Achilles back to battle, and to his fateful meeting with Hector. Homer's epic of rage, honor and grief is one of the founding works of Western literature.
Translated into English prose by Samuel Butler (1898).
