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Quotation from The Iliad by Homer

“Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans”

Homer (spoken by Narrator)

The Iliad, Book 1.1–2, trans. Samuel Butler (1898)

The opening invocation of the Muse, announcing the poem's subject.

Citation: "Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans" — Homer, The Iliad, Book 1.1–2, trans. Samuel Butler (1898). (id the-iliad-q1)

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