BOOK THE SIXTEENTH. ARGUMENT. Patroclus at length obtains permission from Achilles, and enters the fight, on condition that he should return after liberating the Greeks from their immediate peril. He...
The Iliad of Homer by Homer Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley Section I PREFACE. The present translation of the Iliad will, it is hoped, be found to convey, more accurately than any which has...
Section IV The Libation Bearers, Part II Many and marvellous the things of fear Earth's breast doth bear; And the sea's lap with many monsters teems, And windy levin-bolts and meteor...
Subtitles There are would-be murderers all round the world who want to kill you and me and themselves, because they are motivated by what they think is the highest ideal. Of course politics are...