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Iliad, Vol. 1: Greek Text is unavailable, but you can change that!

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,...

Ἦ τοι ὅ γʼ ὣς εἰπὼν κατʼ ἄρʼ ἕζετο· τοῖσι δʼ ἀνέστη 69 Κάλχας1 Θεστορίδης, οἰωνοπόλων ὄχʼ ἄριστος, 70 ὃς ᾔδη τὰ τʼ ἐόντα τά τʼ ἐσσόμενα πρό τʼ ἐόντα, 71 καὶ νήεσσʼ ἡγήσατʼ Ἀχαιῶν Ἴλιον εἴσω 72 ἣν διὰ μαντοσύνην, τήν οἱ πόρε Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων. 73 ὅ σφιν ἐῢ φρονέων ἀγορήσατο καὶ μετέειπεν·2 74 “ὦ Ἀχιλεῦ, κέλεαί με, Διίφιλε, μυθήσασθαι 75 μῆνιν Ἀπόλλωνος ἑκατηβελέταο ἄνακτος· 76 τοιγὰρ ἐγὼν ἐρέω· σὺ δὲ σύνθεο
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