Excerpt from The Women of the Iliad: A Metrical Translation of the First Book and of the Other Passages in Which Women Appear The self-indulgence, treachery and violation of the sacred claims of hospitality by Paris - all of which Priam and the Trojans made their own when they refused to restore Helen to her right ful lhusband - all these abuses of justice were atoned for in the final overthrow of I liam's high built towers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.