Homer''s Iliad (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Homer''s Iliad<br><br>The ?ight of cranes murmur of bees that from their hollows in the rocks seek the spring ?owers swarming of ?ies to the spring milk the west wind waving the grain and the east and south raising the waves of the Icarian Sea; man conscious of beauty in the world around labouring upon the soil tending his herds labouring at the loom the forge the potter''s wheel and by the work of his hands adding new beauty man worshipping on hills and heaths the powers of Nature; sacrificing to the power of the air by lifting the head of the ox and causing the blood of sacrifice to spirt towards the sky sacrificing to the power of the sea by slaying the victim where its blood reddens the wave and to the power of the under-world by making the blood pour from the lowered neck into a hollow of the ground; each warrior-chief his people''s priest earth sea and air temple and Gods in one; the wealth and the worship of Nature were in Homer''s world. It was still night over Europe. Our earliest rays of intellectual light were yet to spread along the shores of the Mediterranean from that dawn in the east which first shone upon Greece.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.