The Iliad by Homer - Book 21 - Achilles and the Gods Wage War (Lombardo Translation)

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The Iliad begins after the Trojan War has been raging for close to ten years. To learn the history / backstory of the Trojan War - you can read about it in the link below.
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We are reading Stanley Lombardo's translation. For a comparison of different translations, read the below article:
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The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Usually considered to have been written down circa the 8th century BC, the Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, along with the Odyssey, another epic poem attributed to Homer, which tells of Odysseus's experiences after the events of the Iliad. In the modern vulgate (the standard accepted version), the Iliad contains 15,693 lines, divided into 24 books; it is written in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects. It is usually grouped in the Epic Cycle.
Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states (Achaeans), it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles
**The Iliad is a work of fiction. None of the Greek Gods exist or ever have existed. There is only one true God - Yahweh, whose son Jesus Christ is the Messiah.