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The Story of the Iliad

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The Story of the Iliad (1895)
by Homer, translated by Alfred John Church
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For other versions of this work, see The Iliad.


The Gods descending to battle.


THE STORY
OF THE ILIAD
.15em



BY THE

Rev. ALFRED J. CHURCH, M.A.

Sometime Professor of Latin in University College, London



With Illustrations after Flaxman



SECOND EDITION



LONDON
SEELEY AND CO., LIMITED
ESSEX STREET, STRAND
1895


Copyright in the United States.


PREFACE

Fourteen years ago, in introducing my 'Stories from Homer' to the public, I expressed the hope that they would 'represent Homer not unfaithfully to readers, old and young, who did not know him in the original.' The book has found, on both sides of the Atlantic, many such readers, and not a few, I am proud to think, who, knowing the original, have judged this adaptation to be not altogether unworthy of it. If I could have anticipated so warm a welcome for my little work—the sale now exceeds twenty thousand copies—I should not have attempted to compress into a single volume the substance of the two poems. The two volumes which I now publish, under the titles of 'The Story of the Iliad,' and 'The Story of the Odyssey,' give a much fuller, and, I trust, a more adequate presentment of them. In the first of these the narrative has been made continuous and completed by a beginning and an ending, both very brief, and containing, it may be said, nothing that is not strictly Homeric; in the second, Homer's own order has been restored, so that Ulysses now tells his adventures in the first person.

A. C.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER
PAGE
I. 1
II. 4
III. 19
IV. 34
V. 45
VI. 54
VII. 74
VIII. 82
IX. 92
X. 103
XI. 117
XII. 142
XIII. 151
XIV. 157
XV. 168
XVI. 178
XVII. 190
XVIII. 203
XIX. 214
XX. 224
XXI. 231
XXII. 237
XXIII. 244
XXIV. 257
XXV. 274
XXVI. 295



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Frontispiece
10
70
84
88
100
112
122
148
170
200
210
214
228
264
268

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Original:

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