The Iliad: The Story of Achilles
by Homer Author, W. H. D. Rouse Translator
The story of Achilles and the Trojan War, written by a Greek poet.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0451530691
- Print Status
- In Print
- Books
- 24
- Pages
- 311
- Suggested Grades
- 6th - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- Greece
- Historical Setting
- 1193 BC - 1183 BC
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Copyright
- 1999
- Written
- 900 BC
Books
- 1 How Achilles and Agamemnon quarrelled over Briseis
- 2 How a Dream came with a message from Zeus
- 3 How Menelaos and Alexandros fought a duel together
- 4 The first battle between Trojans and Achaians
- 5 How Diomedes did great deeds of valour
- 6 How Paris was brought back into battle
- 7 How Aias and Hector fought in single combat
- 8 The battle wavers to and fro
- 9 How Agamemnon repented of his violence
- 10 How Diomedes and Odysseus went on a night raid
- 11 How the battle turned
- 12 How the two armies fought before the wall
- 13 The battle among the ships
- 14 How Hera deluded Zeus and sent him to sleep
- 15 How Zeus awoke, and what he said to Hera
- 16 How Patroclos took the field in the armour of Achilles
- 17 How they fought over the body of Patroclos
- 18 How Achilles received the news
- 19 How Achilles made friends with Agamemnon
- 20 How Achilles swept the battlefield
- 21 The battle by the river
- 22 Of the last fight and the death of Hector
- 23 The funeral rites of Patroclos
- 24 How Priam and Achilles met
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