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Book 19, lines 381-383. Quote 53: "Our team could race with the rush of the West Wind, The strongest, swiftest blast on earth, men say - Still you are doomed to die by force Achilles, Cut down by a deathless god and mortal man!" Book 19, lines 491-494. Quote 54: "These mortals do concern me, dying as they are." Book 20, line 26

The Odyssey is the sequel to The Iliad, which describes the events of the Trojan War. The epics are considered the first known works of Western literature, and exerted vast influence on most of the authors and philosophers in ancient Greece as well as epic poems written in Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance times, such as The Aeneid , The Divine ...

The Epic Cycle (Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, Epikos Kyklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony.Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, among the poems of ...

Achilles was the son of the Thetis, a nereid, and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons. Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for Thetis's hand in marriage until Prometheus, the fore-thinker, warned Zeus of a prophecy (originally uttered by Themis, goddess of divine law) that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father.For this reason, the two gods withdrew their pursuit, and had her …

Book 1: Debts and Lessons Book 2: On the River Gran, Among the Quadi Book 3: In Carnuntum Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 ... progressing to full-scale practice declamations in which he ... have read Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and the tragedies of Euripides side by …