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 "title": "The Iliad — Wrath, Sing, Goddess",
 "description": "Machine-readable mirror of a line-for-line English translation of Homer's Iliad. aligned-NN.jsonl is the parallel corpus for one book: one JSON object per verse line, {book, line, greek, en}, in the printed order of the Monro-Allen text, English verse only (no note markers). book-NN.txt is the full translation source for one book: a one-line argument, the translator's commentary, numbered verse lines ('  123  text', one English line per Greek line, same numbering as the Greek) with bracketed [7] markers pointing into a notes section of scholarly endnotes, each opening with its (book.line) reference. registry.json is the index of names: the poem's principal persons, gods, peoples, and places, with category, aliases, note, and 'book.line' refs. Cite passages as book.line, e.g. 6.146. Human-readable edition with line anchors: /read/book-NN.html#L123.",
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 "repository": "https://github.com/spinchange/iliad",
 "license": "English translation (the 'en' fields and the verse in book-NN.txt): CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication). Notes, commentary, and index: CC BY 4.0, (c) 2026 Chris Duffy. Greek: Monro-Allen, Oxford Classical Text, 1920 (public domain).",
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   "argument": "The wrath: the quarrel over Briseis, the plague, and Thetis's bargain with Zeus.",
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   "argument": "The lying Dream, the testing of the army, Thersites beaten — and the Catalogue of Ships.",
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   "argument": "The duel for Helen: Paris against Menelaus, the view from the wall, and Aphrodite's rescue.",
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   "book": 4,
   "argument": "The truce broken: Pandarus's arrow, the review of the troops, and the first battle of the poem.",
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   "book": 5,
   "argument": "The aristeia of Diomedes: gods bleed — Aphrodite, then Ares himself, wounded by a mortal's spear.",
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   "argument": "Hector in Troy: Glaucus and Diomedes trade armor on the field; Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gates.",
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   "argument": "The duel of Hector and Ajax, the burial truce, and the building of the Achaean wall.",
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   "argument": "Zeus bans the gods from the battle; the golden scales tip against the Achaeans; the Trojans camp on the plain under a thousand watchfires.",
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   "argument": "The Embassy to Achilles: Agamemnon's gifts, three speeches, and three refusals — each smaller than the last.",
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   "argument": "The Doloneia: both armies send spies into the same night — Dolon dies talking, and Odysseus and Diomedes come home laughing, with the horses of Rhesus.",
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   "argument": "The long day begins: Agamemnon's morning of glory, the captains carried off wounded one by one, and Nestor plants the plan that will kill Patroclus.",
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   "argument": "The battle at the wall: the Trojans storm it on foot, Sarpedon states the heroic contract, Hector overrules the omen, and the gate goes down.",
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   "argument": "Poseidon's defiance: Zeus looks away, the sea-god slips into the battle in disguise, and the line holds — shield on shield, man on man.",
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   "argument": "The Deception of Zeus: Hera borrows the girdle of Aphrodite, buys Sleep with a Grace, and Zeus sleeps on Gargaron while the sea-god turns the battle.",
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   "argument": "Zeus wakes: the plan of the whole poem is spoken aloud, Apollo kicks down the wall like a child's sand, and Hector's hand closes on the stern of Protesilaus's ship.",
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   "argument": "The Patrocleia: Patroclus goes out in Achilles' armor, quenches the fire, kills Sarpedon — and dies at the wall, struck by a god, a boy, and Hector, in that order.",
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   "argument": "The fight over the body of Patroclus: Hector puts on the armor of Achilles, the immortal horses weep, and Ajax prays not for rescue but for light.",
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   "argument": "The news reaches Achilles: the scream, the choice of death — and on the anvil of Hephaestus a whole world of peace, hammered onto the shield he will carry to kill Hector.",
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   "argument": "The wrath is renounced from a seat; the blame is laid on a goddess; and the gifts nobody looks at are carried past a fasting man — who arms, mounts, and hears his own horse foretell his death.",
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   "argument": "Zeus opens the gates and the gods go down to war — then sit and watch, while Achilles begins the killing that will not stop until Hector: Aeneas saved for empire, Hector saved for Book 22, and twelve men in a row not saved at all.",
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   "book": 21,
   "argument": "Half the rout is driven into the river, and the river fights back: Lycaon's bared throat, Asteropaeus's two spears, Scamander rising against the man who has choked him with corpses — water against fire, gods against gods — until Troy's gates gape for the routed, and Apollo, wearing a man's face, runs Achilles out of the way.",
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   "argument": "One man is left outside the wall. His father begs from the tower, his mother bares her breast; he debates, runs, is run down past the washing-places of the old peace; the scales dip, Athena lies, the ash spear finds the throat above the stolen armor's collar — and a woman heating bath-water learns why the tower is wailing.",
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   "book": 23,
   "argument": "The ghost asks for burial and one last embrace; the pyre takes horses, dogs, and twelve men; and then — games: the army that has been killing for nine years spends a day competing for tripods and mares, quarreling justly, yielding handsomely, and laughing — while the man who arranged it all watches, having no future of his own.",
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   "book": 24,
   "argument": "The gods vote against the rage; a mother tells her son to eat, to sleep, to love; an old man kisses the hands that killed his sons — and the two of them weep, eat, and look at each other. The poem that began with the wrath ends with a burial done properly.",
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