All 19 Uses
strife
in
The Iliad
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- It was at a wedding feast to which all the gods had been invited, except, naturally enough, the goddess Strife.†
Book Intr. *strife = violent conflict or angry disagreement
- Strife had her revenge by tossing into the hall an apple inscribed "to the fairest."†
Book Intr.
- Homer's most prolonged delay, a tour deforce that may try the patience of the unprepared reader, is the great day of battle that runs from the beginning of Book XI until nearly the middle of Book XVIII.18 It begins with Zeus stirring up Strife at dawn and it ends with the "reluctant sun" going down after the Greeks have deposited the body of Patroklos on a cot back in Akhilleus' camp.†
Book Intr.
- He stood again amid his peers, to their relief; they saw him whole, without a scratch, and hot for war— but no one there could pause to question him; Apollo brought new toil upon them now, with Ares, bane of men, and Strife insatiable.†
Book 5
- And Hera in her hunger for strife of battle and the cries of war backed her sure-footed horses in the traces.†
Book 5
- Dawn came up from the couch of her reclining, leaving her lord Tithonos' brilliant side with fresh light in her arms for gods and men, and Zeus commanded Strife down to the beachhead— hard-bitten goddess, bearing in her hands the stormcloud sign of war.†
Book 11
- Now from Odysseus' lugger Strife gave tongue to a shivering cry.†
Book 11
- The line of battle held them face to face, lunging like wolves, and Strife who thrives on groaning looked on that field in joy, for she alone of goddesses or gods mixed in the fighting.†
Book 11
- These gods had interlocked and drawn an ultimate hard line of strife and war between the armies; none could loosen or break that line that had undone the knees of many men.†
Book 13
- Now I must see them and compose their strife.†
Book 14
- let strife and rancor perish from the lives of gods and men, with anger that envenoms even the wise and is sweeter than slow-dripping honey, clouding the hearts of men like smoke: just so the marshal of the army, Agamemnon, moved me to anger.†
Book 18
- Here then Strife and Uproar joined the fray, and ghastly Fate, that kept a man with wounds alive, and one unwounded, and another dragged by the heels through battle-din in death.†
Book 18
- When everyone had crowded in, Akhilleus, the great battlefield runner, rose and said: "Agamemnon, was it better for us in any way, when we were sore at heart, to waste ourselves in strife over a girl?†
Book 19
- When the Olympians joined the lines arrayed, Strife came in power, goader of fighting men.†
Book 20
- So the gods in bliss roused the contenders, hurled them into war, and broke in massive strife among themselves.†
Book 20
- Am I a party to that strife?†
Book 21
- Heavy and harsh strife, however, came upon the rest, whose hearts grew stormy on both sides against each other.†
Book 21
- The broad earth resounded, and great heaven blared around them, and Zeus, who heard from his Olympian seat, laughed in his heart for joy, seeing the gods about to meet in strife.†
Book 21
- She of the snow-white arms, by whom the gods are plagued with strife and bickering.†
Book 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(strife) violent conflict or angry disagreement
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)