The Iliad (Wisehouse Classics Edition). Homer
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The Iliad
The Iliad
of Homer
Translated by Alexander Pope
With an introduction and notes by The Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.
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Wisehouse Classics
The Iliad
Homer
Translated by Alexander Pope
Executive Editor Sam Vaseghi
Published by Wisehouse Classics – Sweden
ISBN 978-91-7637-265-4
Wisehouse Classics is a Wisehouse Imprint.
© Wisehouse 2017 – Sweden
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Contents
Introduction by The Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.
Pope’s Preface to The Iliad of Homer
The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon.
The Trial of the Army, and Catalogue of the Forces.
The Duel of Menelaus and Paris.
Book IV.
The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle.
Book V.
The Acts of Diomed.
Book VI.
The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache.
Book VII.
The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax.
Book VIII.
The Second Battle, and the Distress of the Greeks.
Book IX.
The Embassy to Achilles.
Book X.
The Night-Adventure of Diomed and Ulysses.
Book XI.
The Third Battle, and the Acts of Agamemnon.
Book XII.
The Battle at the Grecian Wall.
Book XIII.
The Fourth Battle Continued, in which Neptune Assists the Greeks: The Acts of Idomeneus.
Book XIV.
Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus.
Book XV.
Argument.
Book XVI.
The Sixth Battle, the Acts and Death of Patroclus
Book XVII.
The Seventh Battle, for the Body of Patroclus. — The Acts of Menelaus.
Book XVIII.
The Grief of Achilles, and New Armour Made Him by Vulcan.
Book XIX.
The Reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon.
Book XX.
The Battle of the Gods, and the Acts of Achilles.
Book XXI.
The Battle in the River Scamander.1
Book XXII.
The Death of Hector.
Book XXIII.
Funeral Games in Honour of Patroclus.1
Book XXIV.
The Redemption of the Body of Hector.
Concluding Note.
Introduction by The Rev. TheodoreAlois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.
SCEPTICISM IS AS MUCH THE RESULT OF KNOWLEDGE, AS KNOWLEDGE IS OF scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.
And this difficulty attaches itself more closely to an age in which progress has gained a strong ascendency over prejudice, and in which persons and things are, day by day, finding their real level, in lieu of their conventional value. The same principles which have swept away traditional abuses, and which are making rapid havoc among the revenues of sinecurists, and stripping the thin, tawdry veil from attractive superstitions, are working as actively in literature as in society. The credulity of one writer, or the partiality of another, finds as powerful a touchstone and as wholesome a chastisement in the healthy scepticism of a temperate class of antagonists, as the dreams of conservatism, or the impostures of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tradition, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different handling from that which the indulgence or credulity of former ages could allow. Mere statements are jealously watched, and the motives of the writer form as important an ingredient in the analysis of his history, as the facts he records. Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted. Consistency is no less pertinacious and exacting in its demands. In brief, to write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Human nature, viewed under an induction of extended experience, is the best help to the criticism of human history. Historical characters can only be estimated by the standard which human experience, whether actual or traditionary, has furnished. To form correct views of individuals we must regard them as forming parts of a great whole — we must measure them by their relation to the mass of beings by whom they are surrounded, and, in contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us, we must rather consider the general bearing of the