tion of notes I have availed myself of the learning of
various commentators (Pope, Coleridge, Mueller, etc.) and covet no
higher praise than the approval of my judgment in the selection.

Those bearing the signature E.P.P., were furnished by my friend Miss
Peabody, of Boston. I would also acknowledge my obligations to C.C.
Felton, Eliot Professor of Greek in Harvard University. It should be
observed, that the remarks upon the language of the poem refer to it
in the original.

For a definite treatment of the character of each deity introduced in
the Iliad, and for the fable of the Judgment of Paris, which was the
primary cause of the Trojan war, the reader is referred to "Grecian
and Roman Mythology."

It is intended that this edition of the Iliad shall be followed by a
similar one of the Odyssey, provided sufficient encouragement is given
by the demand for the present volume.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I. BOOK XIII.
II. XIV.
III. XV.
IV. XVI.
V. XVII.
VI. XVIII.
VII. XIX.
VIII. XX.
IX. XXI.
X. XXII.
XI. XXIII.
XII. XXIV.

THE
ILIAD OF HOMER,

TRANSLATED INTO
ENGLISH BLANK VERSE.

ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST BOOK.

The book opens with an account of a pestilence that prevailed in the
Grecian camp, and the cause of it is assigned. A council is called, in
which fierce altercation takes place between Agamemnon and Achilles.
The latter solemnly renounces the field. Agamemnon, by his heralds,
demands Briseis, and Achilles resigns her. He makes his complaint to
Thetis, who undertakes to plead his cause with Jupiter. She pleads it,
and prevails. The book concludes with an account of what passed in
Heaven on that occasion.

* * * * *

[The reader will please observe, that by Achaians, Argives, Danai, are
signified Grecians. Homer himself hav