Rank 61 of 100
The Iliad
Also known as Iliad
Synopsis
In the last weeks of the Greek siege of Troy, Achilles refuses to fight because his prize has been taken, and men die while he stays in his tent. Homer’s subject is rage: how a slight becomes a war inside a war, and what it costs to give a body back to the father who loved it.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
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- Year
- c. 8th century BCE
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Country
- Greece
- Form
- Epic poem
- Genre
- Epic, War
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- Ancient
- Movement
- Ancient epic
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 683 pages
- Reported copies
- Continuous reading for nearly three thousand years
- Kind
- Fiction