Rage--Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, <br />murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, <br />hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, <br />great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, <br />feasts for the dogs and birds, <br />and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. <br />Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, <br />Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles. <br /> <br /> What god drove them to fight with such a fury? <br />Apollo the son of Zeus and Leto. Incensed at the king <br />he swept a fatal plague through the army--men were dying <br />and all because Agamemnon spurned Apollo's priest.<br /><br />Homer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-1-12-in-the-iliad/
