The Iliad

by Homer · c. 750 BCE

Samuel Butler's prose translation, 1898. 24 parts, about 152,656 words, 12 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians.
Book 1, lines 1-2 · Read it in Book I
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
Book 6, lines 146-149 · Read it in Book VI
I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.
Book 24, lines 505-506 · Read it in Book XXIV

About this text

Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by Samuel Butler. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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