Iliad

The wrath of Achilles, the fall of heroes and the will of the gods - The Iliad is Homer's towering epic of the Trojan War, published here in Alexander Pope's celebrated verse translation.Set in the final weeks of the ten-year siege of Troy, The Iliad follows the Greek champion Achilles, whose quarrel with his commander Agamemnon drives him from the battlefield and sends the war spinning toward the...