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The Iliad by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler - Book 2

The only license I have taken from the original translation is changing some of the Roman names to the Greek ones.

• Zeus sends a lying dream to Agamemnon, who thereon calls the chiefs in assembly, and proposes to sound the mind of his army
• In the end they march to fight
• Catalogue of the Achaean and Trojan forces.

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The Iliad by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler - Book 1

The only license I have taken from the original translation is changing some of the Roman names to the Greek ones.

• The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles
• Achilles withdraws from the war, and sends his mother Thetis to ask Zeus to help the Trojans
• Scene between Zeus and Hera on Olympus.

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In our first episode we turn to St. Basil the Great to learn about why reading the great works of the past can help us in the formation of our character.