The Iliad of Homer

The Iliad by Homer describes the historical events happening at the times of the Greek invasive wars on the coast of Asia Minor. The poem contains details about the episodes of the last two months of a decade-long siege of the famous Troy. Pretty illustrations provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

Homer's Iliad, the oldest and greatest epic poem in our culture, was composed in the eighth century BC. It became the single most important literary resource in ancient Greek culture and has exercised a decisive influence on Western culture an influence which continues to this day. The poem tells the story of a quarrel between Achilles, the greatest of the Achaean warriors in the Greek expedition against Troy, and Agamemnon, the commander of the expedition—an argument which causes Achilles to withdraw from the fighting. The battles continue without him, and the ironic unfolding of events eventually leads him to rejoin the war and to seek out the great Trojan warrior Hector for a climactic single combat.