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Aeneid 6

Aeneid 4: 'You're nice n'all, but I gotta go!'

Aeneid 2: 'Unspeakable, o queen, is the grief you bid me renew!'... 'Perhaps you ask too what was Priam's fate...'

Iliad 24

Iliad 23: If the Olympians were sports commentators...

Iliad 19: breakfast first, fighting second... the most important meal of the Trojan War

Iliad 18: War and Peace on the Shield of Achilles, an imago mundi

Iliad 17: A fight over a corpse...

Iliad 16: ὁ θάνᾰτος τοῦ Πατρόκλου, or: 'The Death of Patroclus'

Iliad 12: 'I need a hero. I'm holding on for hero 'til the end of steak night.'

Iliad 10: 'An easy commerce of the old and the new' (T. S. Eliot)

Iliad 9: Agamemnon, Odysseus, Phoenix, Ajax, and... Achilles

Iliad 6: Hector vs Paris; Andromache vs Helen

Iliad 4: Olympians...

Iliad 3: Paris brings a bow to a sword fight with Menelaus... the duel to end the war

Iliad 2: 'Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?' (Marlowe)