The Iliad of Homer

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Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer: Faithfully Translated Into Unrhymed English MetreThe weakest point of the Greeks, their absurd religion, has its interest and instruction in its eminently childlike simplicity. We see in this people (what may be called) the childish mind magnified, both as to intensity and duration, and through them we can trace step by step the wonderful changes of religious thought, from Homer to Finder and to Plato or Aristotle: but to be familiar first with Homer, is the basis of this contemplation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.