QuoteAges 14–15 · The Moral Imagination
“Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilles and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians.”
— Homer
Iliad, Book I, lines 1-2 (Lattimore translation)
The opening of the Iliad. The first invocation of the Muse in the Western tradition.
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