The story of the Iliad (1911) (14596357638)

Identifier: storyofiliad00chur (find matches)
Title: The story of the Iliad
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Church, Alfred John, 1829-1912 Homer. Iliad Flaxman, John, 1755-1826, illustrator
Subjects: Achilles (Greek mythology) Mythology, Greek Trojan War
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Company London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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m their city if he will. What have I to dowith the strife and sorrow of men ? So he spake, for all his streams were boiling— as a caldron boils with a great fire beneathit, when a man would melt the fat of a greathog; nor could he flow any longer to the sea,so sorely did the breath of the Fire-god troublehim. Then he cried aloud to Hera, entreatingher: O Hera, why doth thy son torment meonly among all ? Why should I be blamedmore than others that help the men of Troy ?Verily, I will cease from helping them, if healso will cease. Nay, I will swear a great oaththat I will keep no more the day of doom fromthe sons of Troy; no, not when all the cityshall be consumed with fire. And Queen Hera heard him, and called toHephaestus, saying: Cease, my son ; it dothnot beseem thee to work such damage to a godfor the sake of a mortal man. So Hephaestus quenched his fire, and theRiver flowed as he flowed before. But among the other gods there arose adreadful strife, for they were divided, the one
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THE BATTLE OF THE GODS. 251 part against the other. With a great crashthey came together, and the broad earth re-sounded, and the heavens rang as with thevoice of a trumpet; and Zeus heard it as hesat on Olympus, and was glad in heart to seethe gods join in battle. First of all, Ares, the shield-piercer, rushedagainst Athene, holding his spear in his hand,and cried: Why dost thou make the gods tostrive in battle, thou that art bold as a fly andshameless as a dog ? Dost thou not rememberhow thou didst set Diomed, the son of Tydeus,upon me to wound me, and how thou didsttake his spear in thy hand, so that all mightsee it, and drive it through my thigh ? Nowwill I requite thee for all that thou hastdone. And he smote on the aegis shield — themighty shield that not even the thunder ofZeus can break. But Athene took up in herhand a great stone that lay upon the plain.Black it was and rough, and very great, thatmen of old had set for a boundary of the field.With this she smote Ares on the