#Morning read: Book 1: The Quarrel (The Iliad Translated by Emily Wilson)

“At this,

the seer took courage and replied, ‘The god is not upset about a broken vow, or lack of lavish offerings to him.

It is the priest whom Agamemnon scorned, whose daughter he would not give back for ransom.

That is the reason that the archer god gives us these troubles and will give yet more.

He will not drive away the deadly plague that now afflicts the Greeks till Agamemnon returns the bright-eyed woman to her father without a ransom or reward, and carries a hecatomb to Chryse. Then we may appease the god.’

With this, he sat back down.

But Agamemnon, son of Atreus, the mighty lord and warrior, stood up aggrieved, his black heart full of furious rage. His eyes shone bright as fire. He scowled at Calchas and said to him…” #Homer