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Perhaps the best-known and most influential of the Greek epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey stand in a class by themselves. The poems are the oldest existing works of Western literature. Their style and content played such an important role in shaping subsequent Greek culture that Homer was often called the teacher of Greece. The style of Greek used in the works has become its own form or dialect,...

1 Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος1 2 οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρίʼ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγεʼ ἔθηκε, 3 πολλὰς δʼ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν 4 ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν2 5 οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι,3 Διὸς δʼ ἐτελείετο βουλή, 6 ἐξ οὗ δὴ τὰ πρῶτα διαστήτην ἐρίσαντε 7 Ἀτρεΐδης τε ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν καὶ δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς. 8 Τίς τʼ ἄρ σφωε θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνέηκε μάχεσθαι; 9 Λητοῦς καὶ Διὸς υἱός· ὁ γὰρ βασιλῆϊ χολωθεὶς 10 νοῦσον

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