Jupiter, in pursuance of the request of Thetis, sends a deceitful vision to Agamemnon, persuading him to lead the army to battle, in order to make the Greeks sensible of their want of Achilles. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline. THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES. The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Iliun, or Troy, by the Greeks. Homer, Iliad, Book 2 1 Now all the other gods and men, lords of chariots, slumbered the whole night through, but Zeus was not holden of sweet sleep, for he was pondering in his heart how he might do honour to Achilles and lay many low beside the ships of the Achaeans. The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, multiple authors. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language, making it the first work of European literature. The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. Translated by Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) book 1 book 2 book 3 book 4 book 5 book 6 book 7 book 8 book 9 book 10 book 11 book 12 book 13 book 14 book 15 book 16. And they that held the hollow land of Lacedaemon with its many ravines, and Pharis and Sparta and Messe, the haunt of doves, and that dwelt in Bryseiae and lovely Augeiae, and that held Amyclae and Helus, a citadel hard by the sea, 585 and that held Laas, and dwelt about Oetylus,these were led by Agamemnon's.

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