id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-perseus-tufts-edu-2443 Homer, Iliad, Book 1, line 1 .html text/html 2206 305 101 The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles, that destructive wrath which brought countless woes upon the Achaeans, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes, and made them themselves spoil for dogs and every bird; thus the plan of Zeus came to fulfillment, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, the marshallers of the people: “Sons of Atreus, and other well-greaved Achaeans, to you may the gods who have homes upon Olympus grant that you sack the city of Priam, and return safe to your homes; but my dear child release to me, and accept the ransom out of reverence for the son of Zeus, Apollo who strikes from afar.� Click on a place to search for it in this document. Commentary references to this page Cross-references in notes to this page Cross-references in text-specific dictionaries to this page Work URI: http://data.perseus.org/texts/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001 Greek Display: Unicode (precombined) ./cache/www-perseus-tufts-edu-2443.html ./txt/www-perseus-tufts-edu-2443.txt