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The Iliad
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Compared both to a tower and to a stubborn mule as he steadfastly resists; the Trojans, he is less agile and voluble than Odysseus, and the poet knows the story (clearly alluded to in The Odyssey) that the two clashed after Akhilleus' death: when the army had to decide who would be awarded Akhilleus' immortal armor, it was Odysseus who won the contest, an insult that drove Aias to suicide.†
Book Intr.
The idea is expressed mythically in the special destiny that attends Akhilleus: he can either leave Troy and live a long, uneventful life with his father at home; or he can stay, fight, and die, and thereby win "immortal glory."†
Book Intr.
Epic song, the final and immortal form of glory, is a great thing; but at root its power comes from sheer naming, as Homer gives out again the name the warrior's mother once gave him.22 19 Extensive parallels in the structure of The Iliad are highlighted in Cedric Whitman, Homer and the Heroic Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.†
Book Intr.
Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss and crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men—carrion for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.†
Book 1
The great runner, Akhilleus, answered: "Nothing for it, goddess, but when you two immortals speak, a man complies, though his heart burst, just as well.†
Book 1

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
Men like those I have not seen again, nor shall: Peirithoos, the Lord Marshal Dryas, Kaineus, Exadios, Polyphemos, Theseus—Aigeus' son, a man like the immortal gods.†
Book 1
Thetis had kept in mind her mission for her son, and rising like a dawn mist from the sea into a cloud she soared aloft in heaven to high Olympos, Zeus with massive brows she found apart, on the chief crest enthroned, and slipping down before him, her left hand placed on his knees and her right hand held up to cup his chin, she made her plea to him: "O Father Zeus, if ever amid immortals by word or deed I served you, grant my wish and see to my son's honor!†
Book 1

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
He bent his ponderous black brows down, and locks ambrosial of his immortal head swung over them, as all Olympos trembled.†
Book 1
High in the air ...a dust cloud from their scuffling rose, commands rang back and forth—to man the cables, haul the black ships to the salt immortal sea.†
Book 2
The cry went out, the men came crowding, officers from their commander's side went swiftly down to form each unit—and the grey-eyed goddess Athena kept the pace behind them, bearing her shield of storm, immortal and august, whose hundred golden-plaited tassels, worth a hekatomb each one, floated in air.†
Book 2
Men do, that is; the immortals know, the place to be the Amazon Myrine's tomb.†
Book 2 *

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
The Dardans were commanded by Aineias, whom ravishing Aphrodite had conceived under Ankhises in the vales of Ida, lying, immortal, in a man's embrace.†
Book 2
No doubt Zeus knows the end, and all the immortals know which of the two must die his fated death.†
Book 3

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
She called her by her name in wonder, saying: "O immortal madness, why do you have this craving to seduce me?†
Book 3
My labor, though, should not be thwarted; I am immortal, too, your stock and my stock are the same.†
Book 4
Our father, Kronos of crooked wit, engendered me to hold exalted rank, by birth and by my standing as your queen—since you are lord of all immortal gods.†
Book 4
But the immortal gods have given men all things in season.†
Book 4
Those goaders of horses, the furious Kadmeians, laid a trap for him on his retreat upcountry: fifty men deployed in a strong ambush by two leaders, Maion, immortal-seeming son of Haimon, and Polyphontes, Autophonos' son.†
Book 4
If any god should put you to the test upon this field, be sure you are not the man to dare immortal gods in combat—none, that is, except the goddess Aphrodite.†
Book 5
Now from the goddess that immortal fluid, ichor, flowed—the blood of blissful gods who eat no food, who drink no tawny wine, and thereby being bloodless have the name of being immortal.†
Book 5
Now from the goddess that immortal fluid, ichor, flowed—the blood of blissful gods who eat no food, who drink no tawny wine, and thereby being bloodless have the name of being immortal.†
Book 5
Our kind, immortals of the open sky, will never be like yours, earth-faring men.†
Book 5

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
High on Olympos, crag of the immortals, he came to rest by the Lord Zeus.†
Book 5
She is the one who urged Diomedes on to mad attempts on the immortals—first he closed with Kypris, cut her palm, and now he hurled himself against me like a fury.†
Book 5
It seemed some one of the immortals out of heaven had come down to put spirit in the Trojans, they wheeled about so suddenly.†
Book 6
Ifirst you may offer up a drop to Zeus, to the immortal gods, then slake your thirst.†
Book 6
Who knows if I shall be reprieved again to see them, or beaten down under Akhaian blows as the immortals will.†
Book 6

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
When he had kissed his child and swung him high to dandle him, he said this prayer: "O Zeus and all immortals, may this child, my son, become like me a prince among the Trojans.†
Book 6
If he should hear how every man here quails before Hektor now, he'd lift his arms to the immortal gods and pray to quit his body, to go down into the house of Death!†
Book 7
Then he who shakes the mainland and the islands, Poseidon, made his comment: "Father Zeus, will any man on boundless earth again make known his thought, his plan, to the immortals?†
Book 7

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
Dawn in her saffron robe came spreading light on all the world, and Zeus who plays in thunder gathered the gods on peaked Olympos'height, then said to that assembly: "Listen to me, immortals, every one, and let me make my mood and purpose clear.†
Book 8
I hope with prayer to Zeus and other immortal gods we shall repulse the dogs of war and death brought on us in the black ships.†
Book 8
Would I were sure of being immortal, ageless all my days, and reverenced like Athena and Apollo, as it is sure this day will bring defeat on those of Argos!†
Book 8
They piled up firewood and carried out full-tally hekatombs to the immortals.†
Book 8

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
If the immortals grant us the plundering of Priam's town, let him come forward when the spoils are shared and load his ship with bars of gold and bronze.†
Book 9
If the immortals grant us the pillaging of Priam's town, you may come forward when the spoils are shared and load your ship with bars of gold and bronze.†
Book 9
My father guessed the truth at once, and cursed me, praying the ghostly Furies that no son of mine should ever rest upon his knees: a curse fulfilled by the immortals—Lord Zeus of undergloom and cold Persephone.†
Book 9
Not for Akhilleus, but he was born of an immortal mother.†
Book 10
His chariot is a masterwork in gold and silver, and the armor, huge and golden, brought by him here is marvelous to see, like no war-gear of men but of immortals ...You'll take me to the ships now, will you not?†
Book 10

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
He appealed to her: "Joy in this armor, goddess, first on Olympos, first of immortals in our invocation!†
Book 10
The rest were absent now and were at ease in great halls of their own, beautiful chambers built for immortals on Olympos' ridges, all being bitter against the dark stormking for decreeing this day's battle to the Trojans.†
Book 11
As for Menoitios, the son of Aktor, these were his words to you: 'My child, Akhilleus is a higher being by his immortal blood; but you are older.†
Book 11
The immortal gods had never willed it, and its time was brief.†
Book 12
No, no, I say, rely on the will of Zeus who rules all mortals and immortals.†
Book 12

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
Then from the stony mountain down he went with mighty strides; a tremor shook the crags and forest under Poseidon's immortal feet.†
Book 13
And roaring Ares heard no news as yet that his own son died in that melee—no, for he was sitting on high Olympos under golden clouds, restrained by the will of Zeus, as were the other immortal gods, all shut away from war.†
Book 13
Hera, having anointed all her graceful body, and having combed her hair, plaited it shining in braids from her immortal head.†
Book 14
And Lady Hera, deep in her beguilement, answered: "Lend me longing, lend me desire, by which you bring immortals low as you do mortal men!†
Book 14

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
Reaching the ford of Xanthos, the clear stream of eddying water that immortal Zeus had fathered, from the car they laid him down on the riverbank and splashed cool water on him.†
Book 14
At this he smiled, the father of gods and men, and lightly came his words upon the air: "Then in the time to come, my wide-eyed lady, supposing you should care to sit with me in harmony among the immortal gods, for all Poseidon's will to the contrary, he must come round to meet your wish and mine.†
Book 15

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(1) (immortal)
living or existing forever

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someone famous throughout history

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someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.

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