The Iliad

The IliadProbably composed in the eighth century B. C. and based on an actual historical event of the thirteenth century B. C., Homer's Iliad is one of the great epics of the Western world. The poem unfolds near the end of the ten year long Trojan War, detailing the quarrel between the great warrior hero Achilles and King Agamemnon, the battle between Paris and Menelaus for Helen of Troy, the Greek assault on the city and the Trojan counterattacks, the

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of the magnificent translation made by Sir Henry Yule in 1871

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This book is indispensable for the professional art historian and critic