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The proem; one of the most quoted openings in Western literature, introducing menis (wrath) as the poem's subject.
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From The Iliad by Homer
The poem's famous opening invocation, calling on the Muse to sing of Achilles' destructive wrath, establishes the central theme of the epic.
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