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Feb. 5th, 2011 11:25 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I actually have two - the opening lines of The Iliad and The Odyssey. And I think it's because of the way they sound, especially when you speak them.
Sing, O Muse, of the wrath of Achilles Peleus' son, the ruinous wrath that brought on the Achaians woes innumerable, and hurled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes, and gave their bodies to be a prey to dogs and all winged fowls; and so the counsel of Zeus wrought out its accomplishment from the day when first strife parted Atreides king of men and noble Achilles. (Lang)
Sing, O Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy’s sacred citadel. (Lattimore)
I actually have two - the opening lines of The Iliad and The Odyssey. And I think it's because of the way they sound, especially when you speak them.
Sing, O Muse, of the wrath of Achilles Peleus' son, the ruinous wrath that brought on the Achaians woes innumerable, and hurled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes, and gave their bodies to be a prey to dogs and all winged fowls; and so the counsel of Zeus wrought out its accomplishment from the day when first strife parted Atreides king of men and noble Achilles. (Lang)
Sing, O Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy’s sacred citadel. (Lattimore)
