For my class reading of the first 100 lines of Book I of the Iliad, I finally had an excuse to pull down a translation I've been meaning to read for years: Alexander Pope's. I figured this was a good time for a test drive. I pulled it out of the slipcover and cracked it open. The Homeric Cause of War The first 100 lines of Book I of the Iliad don't really discuss the cause of the Trojan War. The action in this part of the poem happens 10 years into that war, and here Homer di