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He would weep till his cry came up to heaven, and then Zeus would send me down to help him; if I had had the sense to foresee all this, when Eurystheus sent him to the house of Hades, to fetch the hell-hound from Erebos, he would never have come back alive out of the deep waters of the river Styx.
As Dawn prepared to spread her saffron mantle over the land, Zeus the Thunderer gathered the gods to the highest peak of many-ridged Olympus, and spoke to them while all listened: ‘Hear me, gods and goddesses, while I say what my heart prompts. Let none of you try to defy me: all must assent, so I may swiftly achieve my aim.
“Hear me, all you gods and goddesses, I’ll speak what the spirit in my chest prompts. And let no female god, no male one either, seek to thwart my plan. Let’s get agreement from all of you to end this matter quickly. 10 [10] If I see any of you breaking ranks of gods, keen to assist the Trojans or Danaans, that god I’ll beat up ...
The Iliad (Book VIII) Lyrics. When Morning, clad in her robe of saffron, had begun to suffuse light over the earth, Jove called the gods in council on the topmost crest of serrated Olympus....
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Iliad, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The gods in Homer often take an active interest in the lives of mortals, who are sometimes their children by blood.
the iliad book 8, translated by a. t. murray [1] Now Dawn the saffron-robed was spreading over the face of all the earth, and Zeus that hurleth the thunderbolt made a gathering of the gods upon the topmost peak of many-ridged Olympus, and himself addressed their gathering; and all the gods gave ear: "Hearken unto me, all ye gods and goddesses ...
Zeus, moreover, has sent his lightnings on the right side, as signs [sêmata]; Hektor, in all his glory, rages like a maniac; confident that Zeus is with him he fears neither god nor man, but is gone raving mad, and prays for the approach of day.
