Sing, O
goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus,
that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a
brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many
a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were
the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the
son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell
out
with one another.
And which of the gods was it that set them on to
quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry
with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to
plague the people, because the son of Atreus had
dishonoured Chryses his priest. Now Chryses had come to
the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had
brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his
hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant’s
wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the
two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.
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