The Illiad by Homer

by Homer

Overview

The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, 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 during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015855869
Publisher:	Unforgotten Classics
Publication date:	05/06/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	226,998
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.
Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC.
Other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC. Modern researchers appear to place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BC.