The Iliad of Homer

1 About this book

The Iliad is one of the two great epic poems of ancient Greece attributed to Homer. It covers a few weeks near the close of the ten-year Greek siege of Troy. Achilles, the greatest of the Greek warriors, quarrels with the commander, Agamemnon, who has taken from him the captive woman Briseis, and in his anger withdraws from the fighting. Without him the Greeks are hard pressed by the Trojans under Hector, while the gods take sides and interfere. The poem, in twenty-four books, follows the consequences of Achilles' anger for both armies and for himself. It does not tell of the wooden horse or the fall of the city.

• Odysseus (Greek mythology)
• Achilles (Greek mythology)
• Greek Mythology
• Adventure
• Epic poetry
• Mythology
• Poetry
• Classical literature