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"The Iliad" is Homer's legendary account of the Trojan War, an epic battle that took place over three-thousand years ago, and had a significant impact on world history. So, significant was the war that it led to the invention of the phonetic alphabet as a means to record the great conflict. Homer's chronicle of the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states is considered to be the greatest war story ever told and numbers amongst the most important works of Western literature.
Contents include:
Homer, an Introduction by John Henry Wright
To Homer, a Poem by John Keats
Translations, by Rev. W. Lucas Collins
The Iliad
Homer's Illiad, an Excerpt by D. J. Snider
The Age of Homer, an Excerpt by Goldwin Smith
Contents include:
Homer, an Introduction by John Henry Wright
To Homer, a Poem by John Keats
Translations, by Rev. W. Lucas Collins
The Iliad
Homer's Illiad, an Excerpt by D. J. Snider
The Age of Homer, an Excerpt by Goldwin Smith