The Iliad
“Let me not then die ingloriously
and without a struggle, but let me
first do some great thing that shall
be told among men hereafter.”
'In the final year of the siege of Troy, Chryses tries to ransom his daughter, Chrysies, who is held a captive by the Achaean leader, Agamemnon. as Agamemnon refuses to release her, Chryses beseeches Apollo, who inflicts plague on the Achaeans. When Achille, the Myrmidons leader, calls upon a council to discover the cause of the plague, Agamemnon is compelled to send her back.
What happens as Agamemnon demands
for Briseis, Achille’s captive; and enraged,
Achilles refuses to the fight the war?
With twenty-four thrilling books which celebrate and glorify war, Homer’s the Iliad is an exquisite composition. Considered to be one of the most influential works of the Western Canon, it is among the oldest extant works of Western literature.'
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9788175993440 |
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English (US) |
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India |
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Paperback |
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352 |
Homer
Homer was an ancient Greek epic poet. He is the author of the,'Iliad and Odyssey' epics and Homeric hymns. The influence of these two epics on the general history of fiction and literature is immense. Homer is thought to have been born shortly before the Battle of Troy (1194-1184 BC). But according to Herodotus, Homer existed four hundred years before Herodotus' birth, around 850 BC. There has been considerable controversy in antiquity over Homer's time, even today. His writings are influenced by passionate oral poetry. It was from Homer's epics that the Western literary genre originated, and his writings on Western art and philosophy had a great influence.