The Iliad
The oldest work of Western literature, and one of the greatest epic poems ever written. Presented here in the Alexander Pope translation.
The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War. Paris, the prince of Troy, has stolen off with Helen, the beautiful wife of Menelaus, the King of Sparta. He leads a coalition of Greek states in a ten-year-long siege of Troy, with the poem picking up the story in the tenth year, and telling of the rivalry between Agamemnon and Achilles. A tale of heroes and gods, it is one of the pillars of the Western canon.
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