Iliad, Vol. I. Books 1-12

by Homer, Augustus Taber Murray

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Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

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