It was probably composed between 800 and 700 BCE, and some scholars believe that it had multiple authors, not just one. The Iliad story is part of an extended mythology around the legendary Trojan War in which the Greeks and the Trojans fought for ten years. Homer's Iliad was originally ...
The Iliad (Ancient Greek: “a poem about Ilium (Troy)”). One of the first pieces of literature still often read by contemporary audiences. The poem was composed in dactylic hexameter and is split into 24 books, just like the Odyssey. ...
Gaston Paris, “was born and mainly developed among the warlike class, princes, lords, and their courts. . . . At first, no doubt, some of these men of the sword themselves composed and chanted lays” (like Achilles), “but soon there arose a special class of poets . . . They went...
Admittedly, there is some doubt over whether theIliadand theOdysseywere even composed by the same main author. Such doubts began in antiquity itself and depended mainly on the difference ofgenre(theIliadbeing martial and heroic, theOdysseypicaresque and often fantastic), but they may be reinforced...
To whom, composed, the godlike chief begun: "Lo! to thy prayer restored, thy breathless son; Extended on the funeral couch he lies; And soon as morning paints the eastern skies, The sight is granted to thy longing218 eyes: But now the peaceful hours of sacred night Demand reflection, ...