Iliad, epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. It takes the Trojan War as its subject, though the Greek warrior Achilles is its primary focus.
An epic poem written by the Greek poet Homer, the Iliad recounts the events of the final weeks of the Trojan War and the siege of the city of Troy after Helen of Sparta is kidnapped by the Trojan prince Paris.
The Iliad, a major founding work of European literature, is usually dated to around the 8th century BC, and attributed to Homer. It is an epic poem, written in Ancient Greek but assumed to be derived from earlier oral sources, and tells much of the story of the legendary Trojan War between mainland Greece and the city of Troy in Asia Minor.
“The Iliad” (Gr: “Iliás”) is an epic poem by the ancient Greek poet Homer, which recounts some of the significant events of the final weeks of theTrojan War and the Greek siege of the city of Troy (which was also known as Ilion, Ilios or Ilium in ancient times).
Yahoo: Passage from Homer’s Iliad discovered in the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy
Passage from Homer’s Iliad discovered in the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy
The excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in Egypt has revealed a 1600-year-old mummy that had been entombed with a papyrus containing an fragment from Homer's epic The Iliad at its abdomen. Owen Jarus's ...
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): War, its costs and consequences: Homer’s ‘Iliad’ continues to speak to us
As a classicist, I tend to be sceptical about modern adaptations of Homer’s epic poem, but Sydney Theatre Company’s recent production of ‘An Iliad’ demonstrates both the pertinence and the power of ...