<p>Heeding Nestor’s rebuke, Agamemnon offers gifts to Achilles if he will yield; Odysseus, Ajax, and Phoinix bear the message and plead with him; he relents—he will stay but not fight.</p>

Heeding Nestor’s rebuke, Agamemnon offers gifts to Achilles if he will yield; Odysseus, Ajax, and Phoinix bear the message and plead with him; he relents—he will stay but not fight.

Iliad Book 9

Rodney Merrill reads the Iliad in his translation. In the Afterword he introduces the poem and explains his use of a strict dactylic-hexameter meter like that of the ancient oral epic. The book itself, published by the University of Michigan Press, may be previewed on the press's website at https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Iliad.
Translated and read by Rodney Merrill
Recorded by James Ward, Live Oak Studio, Berkeley, California
Uploaded by Nathan Levine
Copyright © by the University of Michigan 2007
All rights reserved

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Rodney Merrill reads the Iliad in his translation. In the Afterword he introduces the poem and explains his use of a strict dactylic-hexameter meter like that of the ancient oral epic. The book itself, published by the University of Michigan Press, may be previewed on the press's website at https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Iliad. Translated and read by Rodney Merrill Recorded by James Ward, Live Oak Studio, Berkeley, California Uploaded by Nathan Levine Copyright © by the University of Michigan 2007 All rights reserved

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