Achaean commander Odysseus is navigating the ship that Chryseis And now you threaten that you will yourself take my prize away from me, for which I toiled so much, which the sons of the Achaeans gave to me. (1) Smithean is a special epithet given to Apollo. The Greek text of Iliad I is printed with a facing English translation of a literal kind, primarily intended to help beginners to construe the Greek and there is also a full vocabulary list. ", [517] Then, greatly troubled, Zeus, the cloud-gatherer spoke to her: "Surely this will be sorry work, since you will set me on to engage in strife with Hera, when she shall anger me with taunting words. For often I have heard you glorying in the halls of my father, and declaring that you alone among the immortals warded off shameful ruin from the son of Cronos, lord of the dark clouds, on the day when the other Olympians wished to put him in bonds, even Hera and Poseidon and Pallas Athene. The son of Leto and Zeus; for he in anger against the king roused throughout the host an evil pestilence, and the people began to perish, because upon the priest Chryses the son of Atreus had wrought dishonour. father, a man named Chryses who serves as a priest of the god Apollo, Standard Unit 4 Vocabulary 20 Terms. Though he fears retribution from Agamemnon, [357] And speedily she came forth from the grey sea like a mist, and sat down before him, as he wept, and she stroked him with her hand, and spoke to him, and called him by name: "My child, why do you weep? an assembly of the Achaean army and asks for a soothsayer to reveal On a time before this, when I was striving to save you, he caught me by the foot and hurled me from the heavenly threshold; the whole day long I was carried headlong, and at sunset I fell in Lemnos, and but little life was in me. The Iliad: Book 1. the Trojans, for his wife, Hera, favors the Greeks, but he finally agrees. Chryses. Indeed it is far better throughout the wide camp of the Achaeans to deprive of his prize whoever speaks contrary to you. Meanwhile, the However, Chryses, priest of Apollo, who strikes from afar, came to the swift ships of the bronze-clad Achaeans, to free his daughter, bearing ransom past counting, and in his hands he held the wreaths of Apollo who strikes from afar, on a staff of gold, and he implored all the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, marshallers of the people. That seems to you even as death. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. But come, cease from strife, and do not grasp the sword with your hand. [605] But when the bright light of the sun was set, they went each to his own house to take their rest, where for each one a palace had been built with cunning skill by the famed Hephaestus, the limping god; and Zeus, the Olympian, lord of the lightning, went to his couch, where of old he took his rest, whenever sweet sleep came upon him. Some more recent translations of the Iliad and commentaries on the work appear in the booklist (left below). Yet even so will I give her back, if that is better; I would rather the people be safe than perish. the cause of the plague. Agamemnon’s demand humiliates and infuriates the proud Achilles. In the very first line of the Iliad, the poet addresses the Muse, who inspires him with song, and asks her to sing (through him) the story of the wrath of the son of Peleus, aka Achilles. 1963, Clarendon Press in English - 5th ed., rev. With these men I had fellowship, when I came from Pylos, from a distant land far away; for they themselves called me. Yet Thetis, even as she had clasped his knees, so held to him, clinging close, and questioned him again a second time: "Give me your infallible promise, and bow your head to it, or else deny me, for there is nothing to make you afraid; so that I may know well  how far I among all the gods am honoured the least. Not in Library. It seems to mean something like “killer of field mice.” Chryse is a... (2) The aegis is a special divine shield, the sight of which has the power to terrify men and make them run away. [531] When the two had taken counsel together in this way, they parted; she leapt straightway into the deep sea from gleaming Olympus, and Zeus went to his own palace. He went forth in silence along the shore of the loud-resounding sea, and earnestly then, when he had gone apart, the old man prayed to the lord Apollo, whom fair-haired Leto bore: "Hear me, god of the silver bow, who stand over Chryse and holy Cilla, and rule mightily over Tenedos, Sminthian god, if ever I roofed over a temple to your pleasing, or if ever I burned to you fat thigh-pieces of bulls and goats, fulfill this prayer for me: let the Danaans pay for my tears by your arrows.". Although the Trojan War as a whole figures … ", [584] So saying, he sprang up and placed in his dear mother's hand the double cup, and spoke to her: "Be patient, my mother, and endure for all your grief, lest, dear as you are to me, my eyes see you stricken, and then I shall in no way be able to succour you for all my sorrow; for a hard foe is the Olympian to meet in strife. Forthwith then she spoke to Zeus, son of Cronos, with mocking words: "Who of the gods, crafty one, has now again taken counsel with you? makes her appeal to Zeus, as promised. Unformatted text preview: The Iliad Book 1 Questions 1. Who is Briseis and what role does she play in The Iliad?