"Cliff Notes - Iliad, The" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cliff Notes)

Since Earth's wide Regions, Heav'n's unmeasur'd Height,

And Hell's Abyss hide nothing from your sight,

(We, wretched Mortals! lost in Doubts below,

But guess by Rumour, and but boast we know)

Oh say what Heroes, fir'd by Thirst of Fame,

Or urg'd by Wrongs, to Troy's Destruction Came?

To count them all, demands a thousand Tongues,

A Throat of Brass, and Adamantine Lungs.

Daughters of Jove assist! inspir'd by You

The mighty labour dauntless I pursue:

What crowded Armies, from what Climes they bring,

Their Names, their Numbers, and their Chiefs I sing.

-Alexander Pope

Tell me now, ye Muses that dwell in the mansions of
Olympus--seeing that ye are goddesses and are at hand and know
all things, but we hear only a rumour and know not anything--who
were the captains of the Danaans and their lords. But the
common sort could I not number nor name, nay, not if ten tongues
were mine and ten mouths, and a voice unwearied, and my heart of
bronze within me, did not the Muses of Olympus, daughters of
aegis-bearing Zeus, put into my mind all that came to Ilios. So
will I tell the captains of the ships and all the ships in
order.

-Lang, Leaf, and Myers

Tell me now, Muses, dwelling on Olympos, as you are heavenly,
and are everywhere, and everything is known to you--while we can
only hear the tales and never know--who were the Danaan lords
and officers? The rank and file I shall not name; I could not,
if I were gifted with ten tongues and voices unfaltering, and a
brazen heart within me, unless the Muses, daughters of Olympian
Zeus beyond the stormcloud, could recall all those who sailed
for the campaign at Troy. Let me name only the captains of
contingents and number all the ships.

-Robert Fitzgerald