* Homer, Iliad xiv. 274 – 9 ; xix. 259f.

Another mention of Hector's exploits in the early years of war was given in the Iliad book 9.

The film version of his death more resembles the single combat between the champions mentioned by Achilles in the Iliad, book 9.

The story is related in several digressions in the Iliad ( 7. 451-453, 20. 145-148, 21. 442-457 ) and is found in Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke ( 2. 5. 9 ).

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

The Greek poet Homer extolled the wealth of Thebes in the Iliad, Book 9 ( c. 8th Century BC ): "... in Egyptian Thebes the heaps of precious ingots gleam, the hundred-gated Thebes.

They appear in Homer's Iliad in Book 9 as the lame and wrinkled daughters of Zeus ( no mother named and no number given ) who follow after Zeus ' exiled daughter Até (' Folly ') as healers but who cannot keep up with the fast-running Até.

-Homer, Iliad 9. 556 ; 8th century b. C.

Two possible echoes of George Chapman's Iliad ( registered 14 November 1608 ) support a date of 1608 – 9.

Homer ( the Iliad and the Odyssey ) uses about 9, 000 words, of which 1, 382 are proper names.

On these pillars rested that solid basis for life and thought which was soon to be manifested in the remarkably unlimited ken of the Iliad.

Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.

the poet of the Iliad deliberately archaized.

The antecedents of Dipylon vases and of the Iliad lie in the Aegean past.

That such a tradition lies behind The Iliad and The Odyssey, at least, is hard to deny.

the verse of Beowulf or of The Iliad and The Odyssey was not easy to create but was not impossible for poets who had developed their talents perforce in earning a livelihood.

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

Combellack argues further, and here he makes his main point, that once The Iliad and The Odyssey are thought formulaic poems composed for an audience accustomed to formulaic poetry, Homeric critics are deprived of an entire domain they previously found arable.

If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Other theories of origin are compatible with the formulaic theory: Beowulf may contain a design for terror, and The Iliad may have a vast hysteron-proteron pattern answering to a ceramic pattern produced during the Geometric Period in pottery.

Thus one line in five from The Iliad and The Odyssey is to be found somewhere else in the two poems.

The Iliad has two words for the shield, ASPIS and SAKOS.

In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.

In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

In Iliad, his priest prays to Apollo Smintheus, the mouse god who retains an older agricultural function as the protector from field rats.

He demanded her return, and the Achaeans complied, indirectly causing the anger of Achilles, which is the theme of the Iliad.

In the Iliad, when Diomedes injured Aeneas, Apollo rescued him.

* Homer, Iliad ii. 595 – 600 ( c. 700 BCE )

* In the Iliad xvi, Apollo washes the black blood from the corpse of Sarpedon and anoints it with ambrosia, readying it for its dreamlike return to Sarpedon's native Lycia.

Abydos was first mentioned in the catalogue of Trojan allies ( Iliad ii. 836 ).

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

In the Iliad, Aeneas is a minor character, where he is twice saved from death by the gods as if for an as yet unknown destiny.

The Iliad tells the story of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles in the final year of the war.

" The three cities I love best ," the ox-eyed Queen of Heaven declares ( Iliad, book iv ) " are Argos, Sparta and Mycenae of the broad streets.

According to a single reference in the Iliad, when the world was divided by lot in three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Poseidon the sea.

In Iliad I, Achilles recalls to his mother her role in defending, and thus legitimizing, the reign of Zeus against an incipient rebellion by three Olympians, each of whom has pre-Olympian roots:

Thetis is not successful in her role protecting and nurturing a hero ( the theme of kourotrophos ), but her role in succouring deities is emphatically repeated by Homer, in three Iliad episodes: as well as her rescue of Zeus ( 1. 396ff ) and Hephaestus ( 18. 369 )

Iphianassa () is the name of one of Agamemnon's three daughters in Homer's Iliad ( ix. 145, 287 ) The name Iphianassa may be simply an older variant of the name Iphigenia.

In a passage in Iliad, Apollo tries three times to stop Patroclus in front of the walls of Troy, warning him that it is " over his portion " to sack the city.

Three years after his death appeared also the last twelve books of the Iliad, published by his son Samuel Clarke, the first three of these books and part of the fourth having, as he states, been revised and annotated by his father.

The Shahnameh has 62 stories, 990 chapters, and some 60, 000 rhyming couplets, making it more than three times the length of Homer's Iliad, and more than twelve times the length of the German Nibelungenlied.

Observing their burdensome prosodic effect, the poet Matthew Arnold remarked, " these three lines by themselves take up nearly as much time as a whole book of the Iliad.

The Iliaca, an abridgment of and supplement to the Iliad, is divided into three parts Ante-homerica, Homerica, Post-homerica containing the narrative from the birth of Paris to the return of the Greeks after the fall of Troy, in 1676 hexameters ( ed.

He went on to publish translations of Sophocles's three Theban plays ( 1982 ), Homer's Iliad ( 1990 ) and Odyssey ( 1996 ), and Virgil's " Aeneid " ( 2006 ).

Dumézil advanced the hypothesis it could be an ideological construction of the Tarquins to oppose new Latin nationalism, as it included the three gods that in the Iliad are enemies of Troy.

Socrates rebuffs the report, saying he has had a dream-a vision of a woman in a white cloak telling him that on the third day hence he will go to Phthia, which is a reference to Achilles ' threat in the Iliad that he — the mightiest of Greek warriors — might just leave for his home in " fertile " Phthia and be there in " just three days " if the Greeks fail to show him due respect.

online ; The first three books of Homer's Iliad, according to the ordinary text, and also with the restoration of the digamma, new edition by Benjamin Davies, London ( 1854 ) online

The Iliad says Helen had only one child, but other sources state that Helen had a daughter, Iphigenia, by Theseus before her marriage to Menelaus, and other myths say Helen and Menalaus had three sons: Aethiolas, Maraphius, and Pleisthenes.

Odysseus, who is a recurrent figure of interest in the Little Iliad, ambushes the Trojan prophet Helenus and captures him ; Helenus then reveals three new prophecies concerning the preconditions for the Greeks ' conquest of Troy, notably, that the city will not fall while it harbours the Palladium.

In Homer's Iliad, the Greek allied forces are described under three different names, often used interchangeably: Argives ( in Greek: Argeioi, Ἀργεῖοι ; used 29 times in the Iliad ), Danaans ( Δαναοί, used 138 times ) and Achaeans ( Ἀχαιοί, used 598 times ).