Monday, September 22, 2014

Google Search Tech Tip

I decided to search the classics subdirectory of the sacred texts website. I've always been interested in Homer's works, so I decided to search Homer specifically. I was surprised to learn that Homer's works were composed in the same period as the Ramayana. I read the Odyssey in high school and last year in Mythology and Folklore, so I decided to look into the Iliad of Homer

This is how the story begins:
"Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another."

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