The Iliad. Homer

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       Homer

      The Iliad

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664186300

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       NOTE TO THE FIFTH EDITION.

       ARGUMENT.

       BOOK I.

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       BOOK II.

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       BOOK III.

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       BOOK IV.

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       BOOK V.

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       BOOK VI.

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       BOOK VII.

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       BOOK VIII.

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       BOOK IX.

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       BOOK X.

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       BOOK XI.

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       BOOK XII.

       VOLUME II.

       ARGUMENT.

       BOOK XIII.

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       BOOK XIV.

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       BOOK XV.

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       BOOK XVI.

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       BOOK XVII.

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       BOOK XVIII.

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       BOOK XIX.

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       BOOK XX.

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       BOOK XXI.

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       BOOK XXII.

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       BOOK XXIII.

       ARGUMENT.

       BOOK XXIV.

PREFACE.

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      In the spring of 1862 I was induced, at the request of some personal friends, to print, for private circulation only, a small volume of "Translations of Poems Ancient and Modern," in which was included the first Book of the Iliad. The opinions expressed by some competent judges of the degree of success which had attended this "attempt to infuse into an almost literal English version something of the spirit, as well as the simplicity, of the great original," [Footnote: Introduction to unpublished volume.] were sufficiently favourable to encourage me to continue the work which I had begun. It has afforded me, in the intervals of more urgent business, an unfailing, and constantly increasing source of interest; and it is not without a feeling of regret at the completion of my task, and a sincere diffidence as to its success, that I venture to submit the result