Index to this series | Text of Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad
Book IX of the Iliad is easily summarized. Chapman does it in four lines.
TO Agamemnon (vrging hopelesse flight)Stand Diomed, and Nestor opposite:By Nestors counsell, Legats are dismist,To Thetis sonne, who still denies t’assist.
These lines hide a wealth of thought. To suggest some of the gems of the book, I expand the summary.
Dog and seaweed on shore opposite Lesbos, 2017.09.14
