The IliadProbably composed in the eighth century B.C. and based on an actual historical event of the thirteenth century B.C., Homer's Iliad is one of the great epics of the Western world. The poem unfolds near the end of the ten-year-long Trojan War, detailing the quarrel between the great warrior-hero Achilles and King Agamemnon, the battle between Paris and Menelaus for Helen of Troy, the Greek assault on the city and the Trojan counterattacks, the intervention of the gods on the part of their favorites, and numerous other incidents and events. |
Contents
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A Quarrel in Olympus | 39 |
The Exploits of Diomed | 49 |
Glaucus and Diomed | 66 |
Hector and Ajax Fight | 76 |
Jove Forbids the Gods to Interfere | 85 |
Agamemnon Proposes that the Achaeans Should Sail Home | 162 |
Jove Awakes | 172 |
Patroclus Fights in the Armour of Achilles | 187 |
The Fight Around the Body of Patroclus | 204 |
The Grief of Achilles Over Patroclus | 218 |
Achilles is Reconciled with Agamemnon | 230 |
The Gods Hold a Council | 238 |
The Fight Between Achilles and the River Scamander | 248 |
The Embassy to Achilles | 96 |
Ulysses and Diomed Go Out as Spies | 109 |
Agamemnon Turns the Fortune of the Day | 120 |
The Trojans and Their Allies Break the Wall | 136 |
Neptune Helps the Achaeans | 145 |
The Death of Hector | 260 |
The Funeral of Patroclus | 271 |
Priam Ransoms the Body of Hector | 288 |