Iliad VI, 390 – 470: XXII 484-575

According to the Iliad ( books XII, XIV, XXII ), in the Trojan War Deiphobus, along with his brother Helenus, led a group of soldiers at the siege of the newly-constructed Argive wall and killed many, and wounded the hero Achean Meriones.

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.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

The other names are the Danaans (, Danaoi used 138 times in the Iliad ), Argives ( used 182 times in the Iliad ) while Hellenes (, Hellenes ) was used only once.

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

According to Greek source, the original name of the Lydian kingdom was Maionia ( Μαιονία ), or Maeonia: Homer ( Iliad ii.

Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.

There is also mention of an Alaksandu, suggested to be Paris Alexander ( King Priam's son from the Iliad ), a later ruler of the city of Wilusa who established peace between Wilusa and Hatti ( see the Alaksandu treaty ).

Some of the earliest references include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible ( Ezekiel 47: 5, Acts 27: 42, Isaiah 25: 11 ), Beowulf, and other sagas.

Their conclusion was that there is regularly a consistency between the location of Troy as identified by Schliemann ( and other locations such as the Greek camp ), the geological evidence, and descriptions of the topography and accounts of the battle in the Iliad.

In the Iliad, the Achaeans set up their camp near the mouth of the River Scamander ( presumably modern Karamenderes ), where they had beached their ships.

Some claim that Virgil meant to change them before he died, while others find that the location of the two passages, at the very end of the so-called Volume I ( Books 1 – 6, the Odyssey ), and Volume II ( Books 7 – 12, the Iliad ), and their short length, which contrasts with the lengthy nature of the poem, are evidence that Virgil placed them purposefully there.

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 )

The names, originally spelled Phobus and Deimus respectively, were suggested by Henry Madan ( 1838 – 1901 ), Science Master of Eton, based on Book XV of the Iliad, in which the god Ares summons Dread ( Deimos ) and Fear ( Phobos ).

In The Iliad ( c. 700 BC ), Zeus asserts that Tartarus is " as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth.

Programmes in this style included Tales From Fat Tulip's Garden ( continued in Fat Tulip Too ), Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All ( a retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey ), and Blood and Honey ( tales from the Old Testament, filmed on location ).

" 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 ).

This specific use of cedar is mentioned in The Iliad ( Book 24 ), referring to the cedar-roofed or lined storage chamber where Priam goes to fetch treasures to be used as ransom.

Kaz Dağı National Park, extending around the ancient Mount Ida ( mentioned in Homer's epic poems such as the Iliad ), is situated within the boundaries of Edremit district and is an important tourist attraction with its natural scenery and a number of picturesque small villages around it.

* Stewart, M. People, Places & Things: Aegyptus ( 1 ), Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.

In another scholium, it is said that the Argonautica's account of Ganymede's abduction by an amorous Zeus ( Argonautica 3. 114 – 17 ) was also modelled on a version by Ibycus ( in Homer's earlier account, Zeus abducted the youth to be his wine-pourer: Iliad 20. 234 ), and that Ibycus, moreover, described the abduction of Tithonus by Dawn ( Eos ).

In Homer's Iliad ( circa 750 BCE ), Achilles prays to " High Zeus, Lord of Dodona, Pelasgian, living afar off, brooding over wintry Dodona ".

In the Iliad, Achilles loves Briseis ( and Briseis was said to love him back ), comparing their relationship with that of man and wife ( he refers to her as his bride and wife often ) and explicitly to that of Menelaus and Helen, which was, after all, what the war is about.

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.

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

* Homer, Iliad II, 819 – 21 ; V, 217 – 575 ; XIII, 455 – 544 ; XX, 75 – 352 ;

* Homer, Iliad ;

A relationship between objects of art described by Homer and the Mycenaean treasure was generally allowed, and a correct opinion prevailed that, while certainly posterior, the civilization of the Iliad was reminiscent of the Mycenaean.

The Aegis (), as stated in the Iliad, is the shield or buckler or breastplate, of Athena or Zeus, which, according to Homer was fashioned by Hephaestus.

Pope: " Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart " The Iliad of Homer ( 1715 – 20 ) Book XV: 697 – 8

The first line of Homer ’ s Iliad —“ Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus ’ son Achilles ”— provides an example:

Finally, even after accepting the various alterations admitted by Homer, some lines remain impossible to scan, e. g. Iliad I. 108 “ not a good word spoken nor brought to pass ”:

This may take the form of a purpose ( as in Milton, who proposed " to justify the ways of God to men "); of a question ( as in the Iliad, which Homer initiates by asking a Muse to sing of Achilles ' anger ); or of a situation ( as in the Song of Roland, with Charlemagne in Spain ).

** Iliad, ascribed to Homer ( Greek mythology )

** The Whole Works of Homer Prince of Poets by George Chapman ( 1616 ) a retelling of the Iliad and Odyssey in iambic rhyming couplets: the Iliad in iambic heptameter, and the Odyssey in iambic pentameter.

* Homer ’ s Iliad

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

Homer expressed her relationship with Zeus delicately in the Iliad, in which she declares to Zeus, " I am Cronus ' eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king of the gods.

* 700 BC: Epic poem Iliad by Homer, earliest account on the continent.

In the Western classical tradition, Homer (;, Hómēros ) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet.

The idea that Homer was responsible for just the two outstanding epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, did not win consensus until 350 BC.

One view which attempts to bridge the differences holds that the Iliad was composed by " Homer " in his maturity, while the Odyssey was a work of his old age.

Aristotle ( Metaphysics 983b – 987a ) believed that the question of first causes may even have started with Hesiod ( Theogony 116 – 53 ) and Homer ( Iliad 14. 201, 246 ).

It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.

Homer describes their capital not as Sardis but as Hyde ( Iliad xx.