There is also an excellent Glossary in the back of the Lattimore translation of the Iliad which includes place names. Sparta and allies c. Outline of the Iliad The Iliad is a very long poem, and it is hard to keep all of the people, places, and events straight. This outline provides a summary of the action in each of the 24 Books. Use it to review what happens in each book, or to locate a particular scene.
This page allows you to find passages in the Iliad in either Greek or English. It also allows you to search for words in the English or Greek text. The English text of the Iliad from the Perseus Project.
The Greek text of the Iliad from the Perseus Project. Search for English word in the Iliad. Search for Greek word in the Iliad. Homer and Art. The Iliad and Odyssey were composed in a culture in which art played a central role. The poems themselves refer to artistic productions, most famously the elaborately decorated shield which Hephaistos makes for Achilles in Iliad In addition, many of the heroes and episodes described in the Homeric poems became popular subjects for sculpture and painting.
Here is a chart listing the major periods of Greek art, along with examples from two of the periods and descriptions of some of the major features as they relate to the Homeric poems. As instructed by Odysseus, Sinon tells the Trojans that the Achaeans have incurred the wrath of Athena for the theft of the Palladium. They have left Sinon as a sacrifice to the goddess and constructed the horse as a gift to soothe her temper.
Sinon explains that the Achaeans left the horse before the Trojan gates in the hopes that the Trojans would destroy it and thereby earn the wrath of Athena. That night, Odysseus and his men slip out of the horse, kill the Trojan guards, and fling open the gates of Troy to the Achaean army, which has meanwhile approached the city again.
All of the Trojan men are killed except for a small group led by Aeneas, who escapes. Helen and Menelaus have a long and dangerous voyage back to their home in Sparta, with a long stay in Egypt. In The Odyssey, Telemachus travels to Sparta in search of his father, Odysseus, and finds Helen and Menelaus celebrating the marriage of their daughter, Hermione. Meanwhile, Aeneas, the only great Trojan warrior to survive the fall of Troy, wanders for many years, searching for a new home for his surviving fellow citizens.
Ace your assignments with our guide to The Iliad! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. What started the Trojan War? Why does Achilles refuse to fight for the bulk of the poem? Why does Zeus support the Trojans?
Why does Hera defend the Achaeans? They can remember stories that last hours and hours, nearly word-perfect. Some of them have been recorded over a period of 20 years, and they've told the same story in almost the same words. Most of us can't remember a single phone number nowadays, because they're all in the phone memory. Yet buried deep in us is this ability to remember important things.
And one of the things about poetry and the rhythmic, heightened language of poetry is that it makes it easy to remember. You can sing a story more easily than you can tell it. You traveled to many of the sites associated with Homer for your research. Tell us about some of the high five moments. In my mind this book is called Homer By Easy Jet [laughs]. It's fantastic the way you can fly off to different spots, very cheaply, like the Trojan plain , in the northwest corner of Turkey, where the Dardanelles comes out of the Sea of Marmara.
It's still astonishingly like Homer describes it. There's this incredible Bronze Age tumulus where Achilles is buried, with a white, limestone cap, which makes it visible from the sea. They all went there to pay homage to Achilles.
But today almost nobody visits it—so it's as if you're discovering it for yourself. In a way it made me grow up. Homer's look at the truly bad aspects of life, in The Iliad especially, is a deeply sobering thing. And he doesn't hold out any kind of consolation.
There's no heaven waiting for the warriors when they're killed, most of them in the most horrible way. They all go down to Hades. But the point Homer wants to make is that in this world of difficulty and suffering, the really beautiful thing is love—that despite the realities of violence, love is a possibility. Simon Worrall curates Book Talk. Follow him on Twitter or at simonworrallauthor. All rights reserved. Your book begins with a storm at sea. Share Tweet Email. Why it's so hard to treat pain in infants.
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The researchers accept the received orthodoxy that a war happened and someone named Homer wrote about it, said Mark Pagel, an evolutionary theorist at the University of Reading in England. They worked from the standard text of the epic poem. The date they came up with fits the time most scholars think the "Iliad" was compiled, so the paper, published in the journal Bioessays , won't have classicists in a snit. The study mostly affirms what they have been saying, that it was written around the eighth century B.
We tried to document the regularities in linguistic evolution and study Homer's vocabulary as a way of seeing if language evolves the way we think it does. If so, then we should be able to find a date for Homer. It is unlikely there ever was one individual man named Homer who wrote the "Iliad.
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