Homer's Illiad in the English verse translation /
The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A Note on the Translation. Book 1: The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon
- Book 2: The Trial of the Army, and Catalogue of the Forces
- Book 3: The Duel of Menelaus and Paris
- Book 4: The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle
- Book 5: The Acts of Diomed
- Book 6: The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache
- Book 7: The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax
- Book 8: The Second Battle, and the Distress of the Greeks
- Book 9: The Embassy to Achilles
- Book 10: The Night-Adventure of Diomed and Ulysses
- Book 11: The Third Battle, and the Acts of Agamemnon
- Book 12: The Battle at the Grecian Wall
- Book 13: The Fourth Battle continued, in which Neptune Assists the Greeks: the Acts of Idomeneus
- Book 14: Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus
- Book 15: The Fifth Battle at the Ships; and the Acts of Ajax
- Book 16: The Sixth Battle; the Acts and Death of Patroclus
- Book 17: The Seventh Battle, for the Body of Patroclus. The Acts of Menelaus
- Book 18: The Grief of Achilles, and New Armour Made Him by Vulcan
- Book 19: The Reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon
- Book 20: The Battle of the Gods, and the Acts of Achilles
- Book 21: The Battle in the River Scamander
- Book 22: The Death of Hector
- Book 23: Funeral Games in Honour of Patroclus
- Book 24: The Redemption of the Body of Hector. Concluding Note.