Achilles' rage

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'Rage: Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades' dark. . . .'

'Homer, the opening lines of the Iliad, translated by Stanley Lombardo, 1997.

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little jimmy said:

The translator of the Illiad named Robert Fitzgerald said :
'Our poet came late and supremely gifted predecessors....
Dozens of these stories had been told or sung by anonymous Aegean people for generations before Homer.''

That makes sense to me, I guess. Homer was digg'n the whispers. He had a zither and was kinda like a bluesman.
Who pause and strum a little in order to remember what to say next. Anyway this is what Nick Tosches tells us.

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