Rage! (Iliad I)
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Recap and Status 1. "Epic Hotness Countdown" 2. "To the Victor Go the Spoils" 3. "The Concubine and the Prince" 4. "Don't Smite the Messenger" 5. "Patron of the Mice" 6. "In the Beard of Agamemnon" 7. "The Routine" 8. "Men Are Such Fools" 9. "Achaeans, Assemble!" 10. "Agamemnon Himself" 11. "Something Happened" 12. "Alternate Plans" 13. "Errand-Girl" 14. "Speaking with Authority" 15. "That Time I Spoke and Everyone Ignored Me" 16. "To Olympus by Chariot" 17. "Nostos" 18. "The View from a Distance" 19. "The Water Bearers" 20. “Here Today, Here Tomorrow” 21. ”Strategic Thinking” 22. "Embers of the Mind" 23. “How the Evergreen Lost Its Leaves” 24. “Tears of Strength and Resilience” 25. “The Strong Man and the King” 26. “The Aether Speaks” 27. “Something Holy and Immortal” Weekly Chapters Every SundayRecap and Status
The Kypria
In the foothills of Mount Ida, a humble shepherd named Paris learns that his life so far has been a lie. He is of royal stock, a son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, named Alexandros at his birth but abandoned in the wilderness after an ill omen.
Moreover, Paris has been selected to settle a dispute among the gods. As the sole judge in an all-goddess beauty pageant, Paris chooses Aphrodite, after her promise that the woman of his choice will become his wife.
Paris names Helen of Sparta, universally acknowledged to be the most beautiful woman in the world. This, despite the fact that Paris is already married to Oenone, while Helen was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta. Paris breaks his existing marriage and, with Aphrodite's aid, convinces Helen to elope with him to the Trojan city of Ilion, where Paris is accepted as the long lost Prince Alexandros.
Helen's dishonored and enraged first husband, Menelaus, calls in the loyalty oaths of Helen's other former suitors, Achaean kings and princes from across the lands of Hellas. Soon, a thousand ships assemble to ferry an Achaean army across the Aegean to undertake a brutal campaign against Ilion. Scores of legendary warriors among them are led by Overlord Agamemnon, who just happens to be Menelaus's brother.
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Rage!
Homer's Iliad in Free Verse
Book 1
© 2020 Greg R. Fishbone,
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Photo by Valentin Salja on Unsplash (2018)
EPIC CYCLE ROADMAP:
* The Kypria* The Iliad
* The Posthomerica
* Tales of Nostos
* The Odyssey
* The Telegony
* The Aeneid
Rage is the first book of the Iliad. Amazons is the first book of the Posthomerica.
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