RAGE: <br /> Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage, <br />Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks <br />Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls <br />Of heroes into Hades' dark, <br />And left their bodies to rot as feasts <br />For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done. <br />Begin with the clash between Agamemnon-- <br />The Greek warlord--and godlike Achilles. <br /> <br /> Which of the immortals set these two <br />At each other's throats? <br />Apollo <br />Zeus' son and Leto's, offended <br />By the warlord. Agamemnon had dishonored <br />Chryses, Apollo's priest, so the god <br />Struck the Greek camp with plague, <br />And the soldiers were dying of it.<br /><br />Homer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-1-15-in-the-iliad/
