The complete online text of The Iliad of Homer by Homer.

Homer is the name that has come down through the centuries as the author of the two earliest surviving poetic works of ancient Greece, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Yet, nothing is securely known about the authorship of these poems. Such was the reverence w...

Homer is the name that has come down through the centuries as the author of the two earliest surviving poetic works of ancient Greece, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Yet nothing is securely known about the authorship of these poems. Such was the reverence wi...

Homer, the major figure in ancient Greek literature, has been universally acclaimed as the greatest poet of classical antiquity. The Iliad and the Odyssey, two long epic poems surviving in a surprisingly large number of manuscripts, are ascribed to him....

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Background Of Myth And Idea In The Iliad The Iliad, like every other Hellenic literary work, epic or tragedy or comedy, must be understood not only in relation to a specific historical period, but also against the intellectual, religious and...

Archaeological findings in the ancient city of Troy in modern-day Turkey lend new plausibility to the account of the Trojan War in Homer's "Iliad," archaeologists said last week. Manfred Korfmann, an archaeologist at the University of Tubingen in Germany, said his recent excavations...