Homer's Iliad

Samuel Butler's prose translation. According to Wikipedia: &quote;Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no reliable biographical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral story-telling and a well-developed &quote;formulaic&quote; system of poetic composition.&quote;