Homer
Essential Poems
A first path through Homer, balancing reader signal, quality labels, registers, and obvious canonical titles.
The Iliad: Book 13
Now when Jove had thus brought Hector and the Trojans to the
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ships, he left them to their never-en
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The Iliad: Book 15
But when their flight had taken them past the trench and the set
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stakes, and many had fallen by th
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The Iliad: Book 23
Thus did they make their moan throughout the city, while the
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Achaeans when they reached the Helles
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The Iliad: Book 16
Thus did they fight about the ship of Protesilaus. Then Patroclus
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drew near to Achilles with tears
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The Odyssey: Book 08
Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
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Alcinous and Ulysses both rose, and A
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The Iliad: Book 20
Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O son
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of Peleus, who were hungering for
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The Iliad: Book 06
The fight between Trojans and Achaeans was now left to rage as it
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would, and the tide of war surge
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The Odyssey: Book 12
“After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into
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the open sea, we went on till we r
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The Odyssey: Book 09
And Ulysses answered, “King Alcinous, it is a good thing to hear a
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bard with such a divine voice a
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The Odyssey: Book 05
And now, as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus—harbinger of
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light alike to mortals and immor
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The Iliad: Book 01
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that
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brought countless ills upon the Achaean
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The Iliad: Book 07
With these words Hector passed through the gates, and his brother
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Alexandrus with him, both eager
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The Iliad: Book 17
Brave Menelaus son of Atreus now came to know that Patroclus had
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fallen, and made his way through
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The Odyssey: Book 22
Then Ulysses tore off his rags, and sprang on to the broad
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pavement with his bow and his quiver fu
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The Iliad: Book 21
Now when they came to the ford of the full-flowing river Xanthus,
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begotten of immortal Jove, Achil
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The Iliad: Book 19
Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams of
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Oceanus, to bring light to mortal
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