Anger be now your song, immortal one, <br />Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, <br />that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss <br />and crowded brave souls into the undergloom, <br />leaving so many dead men--carrion <br />for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done. <br />Begin it when the two men first contending <br />broke with one another-- <br /> the Lord Marshal <br />Agamémnon, Atreus' son, and Prince Akhilleus. <br /> <br />Among the gods, who brought this quarrel on? <br />The son of Zeus by Lêto. Agamémnon <br />angered him, so he made a burning wind <br />of plague rise in the army: rank and file <br />sickened and died for the ill their chief had done <br />in despising a man of prayer.<br /><br />Homer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-1-16-in-the-iliad/
