Iliad

The Iliad (Greek ?????, Ilias) tells part of the story of the siege of the city of Ilium, i.e. the Trojan War, and is, along with the Odyssey, one of the two major Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer, a blind Ionian poet. Scholars dispute whether Homer existed, and whether he was one person, but it is clear that the poems spring from a long tradition of oral poetry. The Iliad and the Odyssey are traditionally dated to the 8th century BC, but many scholars now prefer a date of the 7th century BC (e.g., Martin West) or even the 6th century BC (e.g., Richard Seaford). The epics are considered to be the oldest literary documents in the Greek language, though the classical Greeks thought that the works of the poet Hesiod were composed earlier. The word Iliad means "pertaining to Ilion" (Latin Ilium), the name of the city proper, as opposed to Troy (Greek ?????, Troia, Latin Troja) the state centered around Ilium, over which Priam reigned. The names are often used interchangeably.

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Trojan War: The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war figures centrally in Greek mythology and was narrated in a cycle of epic poems of which onl...

Odyssey: The Odyssey (Greek ????????) is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first of which is the Iliad. The book follows the events of the voyage of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, returning from the Trojan War, and the story of Odysseus son Telemachus who sets out to find his fat...

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Sala Dell'iliad Pitti Palace Florence circa 1870