![]() ![]() ![]() The poem itself centres on the figure of Achilles the Greek warrior, his quarrel with King Agamemnon the Greek leader, the death of Achilles’ friend Patroclus, and Achilles’ ultimate defeat of the Trojan warrior Hector. ![]() The cultural background to the poem indicates a Bronze Age setting around 400 to 500 years before the Homeric literary period itself. It is an epic poem, written in Ancient Greek but assumed to be derived from earlier oral sources, and tells much of the story of the legendary Trojan War between mainland Greece and the city of Troy in Asia Minor. The Iliad, a major founding work of European literature, is usually dated to around the 8th century BC, and attributed to Homer. The Text is fully hyper-linked to the index and vice versa.Įach Book is arranged in paragraphs, with each paragraph headed by the corresponding line reference in the Greek text. A complete English translation with hyper-linked index and illustrations courtesy of the RijksmuseumĪnd such were the funeral rites of Hector,īook XXIII: The Funeral Games for Patroclus ![]()
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