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Iliad

The Iliad (/ˈɪliəd/ ⓘ ILL-ee-əd; Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, romanized: Iliás ; lit. ' about Ilion (Troy)') is one of two major surviving ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern readers. Like the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter.…

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Genre
Epic poetry
Country
Ancient Greece
Followed by
The Odyssey
Language
Homeric Greek
Lines
15,693
Metre
Dactylic hexameter

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related to Sources · 152
Iliad → Alan, Alexopoulou, An Origin, Ancient Epic, Ancient Reception, Antiquity, Archaic, Arethusa, Aristotle's Rhetoric, Arts, Aubrey, August, Augustus Taber, Austin, Battle, Berlin, Biffis, Books, Burn, Cambridge
related to Further reading · 74
Iliad → Achaeans, Akritas, Allen, Allen Lane, Archived, Barbara Graziosi, Barry, Blackwell's, Book VI, Book XXII, Books, British Museum, Bryan, California Press, Cambridge University Press, Commentary, Daisy, De Jong, Denys Lionel, Edwards
related to 20th-century arts · 71
Iliad → Achilles, Act One, Act Two, Aida, Alexander Korda, Alice Oswald, America's Washington, American War, Ancient Greek, Apollo, Book One, Broadway, Cassandra, Cassandra's, Christa Wolf's, Christopher Logue's, Clytemnestra, David Melnick's Men, Described, Erskine's
related to Contemporary popular culture · 66
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related to External links · 35
Iliad → Achaeans, Alexander Pope, An, Andrew Lang, August, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Buckley, Butler, Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Derby, Earl, Edward, Ernest Meyers, George Chapman, Greek, Herbert JordanFlaxman, Homer, Homeric Greek, IliadThe Iliad Archived, LibriVoxMultiple
related to Pride · 28
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related to Mēnis · 23
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related to As oral tradition · 22
Iliad → Albert Lord, Athena's, Classical, Eric Havelock, Greeks, Gregory Nagy, His, Homer, Homeric, In, In Yugoslavia, Literature, Marshall McLuhan, Milman Parry, Odysseus, Odyssey, Originally, Panathenaic Festival, Parry, Parry/Lord
related to English · 20
Iliad → Achilles, Ajax, Art, Calchas, Cressida, Development, Hephaestus, It, King Priam, Metropolitan Museum, New York City, Robert Browning's, The, Thetis, Troilus, Trojan, Trojan War, Troy, William Shakespeare, William Theed
related to English translations · 20
Iliad → Achilles's, Alexander Pope's, At, Chapman, Chapman's, Chapman's Homer, Cowper, English, George Chapman, Greek, Homer, Homer's, Iliad Nine, In, It, John Keats, John Ogilby's, On First Looking, Pope, William Cowper's Miltonic

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achilles homer greek needed troy hector war agamemnon patroclus achaeans trojan trojans citation ancient isbn gods poem odyssey zeus book

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IliadCountryAncient Greece1.00infobox
IliadFollowed byThe Odyssey1.00infobox
IliadGenreEpic poetry1.00infobox
IliadLanguageHomeric Greek1.00infobox
IliadLines15,6931.00infobox
IliadMetreDactylic hexameter1.00infobox
IliadOriginal titleἸλιάς1.00infobox
IliadPublished in English1598; 428 years ago (1598)1.00infobox
IliadSubjectTrojan War1.00infobox
IliadTranslatorGeorge Chapman and others; see English translations of Homer1.00infobox
IliadWrittenlate 8th to mid 7th century BC1.00infobox
Iliadis afrequent subject of retellings from the point of view of an oppressed female character0.90text

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