Iliad: Book Two

This is an illustrated ePub version of my translation of Book two of the twenty-four books of Homer’s Iliad which deals with one phase of the war between Greeks and Trojans on the plain between the city of Troy and the sea. 


The war is ostensibly to recover Helen the wife of Menelaos King of Sparta. A rather willing Helen had been abducted by a Trojan prince, Alexandros (aka Paris). 


Book Two of Iliad deals with Zeus’s plan to force Agamemnon, Menelaos’s brother and the leader of the Greek army at Troy, to grovel to the enraged  Akhilleus, the most outstanding warrior in the Greek army. In Book One Akhilleus has been profoundly insulted by Agamemnon and Zeus has somewhat reluctantly agreed to  set matters right. 


Agamemnon proceeds by proposing a paradoxical injunction to the Greek army and things nearly come apart, but the goddesses Hera and Athena intervene, and the army eventually mobilises. 

 

The illustrations have been created using the ArtStudio app on an iPad, specifically for this ePub version. 


Ideally it should be read on an iPad or similar, set to scroll theme with an appropriately sized Palatino font. 


Brian Dawkins, translator and illustrator. May 2016