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Homer's Iliad, tr. into Engl. hexameters by J.I. Cochrane
Homer's Iliad tr into Engl hexameters by JI Cochrane Author:Homerus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LIST OF GREEK PROPER NAMES, WITH THE CORRESPONDING NAMES COMMONLY USED IN ENGLISH. AIAS, AJAX. APHRODITE, .... VENUS. ABES, MARS. ARTEMIS DIANA. ... more » DEMETER, .... CERES. DIONYSOS, .... BACCHUS. ENYO, ..... BELLONA. EOS, ..... AURORA. HEPHAISTOS VULCAN. HERA, ..... JUNO. HERAKLES HERCULES. HERMES, .... MERCURY. KRONOS, . . . SATURN. ODYSSEUS, .... CLYSSES. PALLAS ATHENA, . . . MINERVA. PERSEPHONEIA, . . PROSERPINE. POSEIDON, . . NEPTUNE. ZEUS, KRONION, . . JUPITER. For Greeks the term used invariably is Achaians, Argives, or Danai. chapter{Section 4ARGUMENT. BOOK I. The Greeks are encamped before Troy, in the tenth year of the siege. Chryses, the priest of Apollo at Chrysa, coming to the ships to ransom his daughter Chryseis, is insulted by Agamemnon, to whom she had been allotted. Apollo, in revenge, smites the Greeks with a pestilence. A council is called, at which Calehas the augur discloses the cause of ApoUo's wrath, and Agamemnon promises to restore Chryseis, but demands another prize. Violent strife arises between him and Achilles. Nestor interposes, and Achilles consents not to oppose the removal of Briseis. Agamemnon, having restored Chryseis to her father, and sent a hecatomb for Apollo, despatches his heralds to take Briseis from Achilles, who resigns her, but complains to his mother Thetis, and, by her advice, withdraws from the war. At the entreaty of Thetis, Zeus promises to send victory to the Trojans, until the Greeks shall honour Achilles. Hera remonstrates, but is silenced by his threats and the entreaties of Hephaistos. The gods feast, and retire to rest, . . . .9 BOOK II. Zeus sends dream to Agamemnon, in which he deceitfully leads him to expect the speedy capture of Troy. The hitter, having...« less