The Iliad
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The Iliad

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The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization—the cornerstone of Western culture and an epic poem without rival in world literature. The story centers on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus’s killing of Hektor and the fall of Troy.

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259.

Ambrosia.

"The blue-eyed maid,

In ev'ry breast new vigour to infuse.

Brings nectar temper'd with ambrosial dews."

Merrick's Tryphiodorus, vi. 249.

260.

"Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon no……

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