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THE ILIAD
Author : Homer
In the war of Troy, the Greeks having sacked some of the
neighbouring towns, and taken from thence two beautiful captives,
Chryseis and Briseis, allotted the first to Agamemnon, and
the last to Achilles. Chryses, the father of Chryseis, and priest of
Apollo, comes to the Grecian camp to ransom her; with which
the action of the poem opens, in the tenth year of the siege. The
priest being refused, and insolently dismissed by Agamemnon,
entreats for vengeance from his god; who inflicts a pestilence on
the Greeks.
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