The Iliad by Homer

Description: Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time. E. V. Rieu was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964. His son, D. C. H. Rieu has revised his work. Peter Jones is former lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. D. C. H. Rieu is the son of E. V. Rieu, celebrated translator from Latin and Greek and Editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964. Peter Jones is former lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The IliadForeword Introduction Introduction to the 1950 Edition Notes on this Revision The Main Characters Further Reading Maps: 1. A reconstruction of Homer's imagined battlefields 2. The Troad 3. Trojan places and contingents 4. Homeric Greece 5. Greek contingents at Troy Preliminaries The Iliad 1. Plague and Wrath 2. A Dream, a Testing and the Catalogue of Ships 3. A Duel and a Trojan View of the Greeks 4. The Oath is Broken and Battle Joined 5. Diomedes' Heroics 6. Hector and Andromache 7. Ajax Fights Hector 8. Hector Triumphant 9. The Embassy to Achilles 10. Diomedes and Odysseus: The Night Attack 11. Achilles Takes Notice 12. Hector Storms the Wall 13. The Battle at the Ships 14. Zeus Outmanoeuvred 15. The Greeks at Bay 16. The Death of Patroclus 17. The Struggle Over Patroclus 18. Achilles' Decision 19. The Feud Ends 20. Achilles on the Rampage 21. Achilles Fights the River 22. The Death of Hector 23. The Funeral and the Games 24. Priam and Achilles Appendices 1. A Brief Glossary 2. Ommitted Fathers' Names Index

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