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

Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italy — in Roman mythology the founding act of Rome.

Ekphrasis may be encountered as early as the days of Aphthonius ' Progymnasmata, his textbook of style, in Virgil's Aeneid when he describes what Aeneas sees engraved on the doors of Carthage's temple of Juno, or Homer's going to great lengths in the Iliad, Book 18, describing the Shield of Achilles, exactly how Hephaestus made it as well as its completed shape.

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.

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

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.

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

" In other words, Achilles is an embodiment of the grief of the people, grief being a theme raised numerous times in the Iliad ( frequently by Achilles ).

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.

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

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.

He is a significant figure in Homer's Iliad and is also mentioned in the Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.

In Homer's Iliad he is described as of great stature, colossal frame and strongest of all the Achaeans.

Most notably, Ajax is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, and he is the only principal character on either side who does not receive personal assistance from any of the gods who take part in the battles.

In the Iliad, Ajax is notable for his abundant strength and courage, seen particularly in two fights with Hector.

Like most of the other Greek leaders, Ajax is alive and well as the Iliad comes to a close.

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.

In the Iliad, the character Paris is known also as Alexander.

The tomb of Myrine is mentioned in the Iliad ; later interpretation made of her an Amazon: according to Diodorus, Queen Myrine led her Amazons to victory against Libya and much of Gorgon.

* In Iliad Menelaos kills a minor character, Pylaimenes, in combat ; but later he is still alive to witness the death of his son.

Laura Slatkin explores the apparent contradiction, in that the immediate presentation of Thetis in the Iliad is as a helpless minor goddess overcome by grief and lamenting to her Nereid sisters, and links the goddess's present and past through her grief.

At Iliad 14. 249 – 61, Hypnos, the minor god of sleep, reminds Hera of an old favor after she asks him to put Zeus to sleep.

Homer described him in detail in the Iliad, Book II, even though he plays only a minor role in the story.

Although its name is Omeros ( Homer in Greek ) it has just a minor touch of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

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

It is crucial, however, not to underestimate the creative and transforming power of subsequent tradition: for instance, Achilles, the most important character of the Iliad, is strongly associated with southern Thessaly, but his legendary figure is interwoven into a tale of war whose kings were from the Peloponnese.

Greek mythology attributed the founding of Susa to king Memnon of Aethiopia, a character from Homer's Trojan War epic, the Iliad.

Her character lies at the center of a dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon that drives the plot of Homer's Iliad.

Although he is mentioned only briefly in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera takes Stentor's character to encourage the Greeks to fight, his name has been living in the term " stentorian " voice, meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous: Homer said his " voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men ".

Many critics have also drawn comparisons with Greek mythology, with Martin M. Winkler comparing The Searchers to Homer's Iliad, and specifically the character of Ethan Edwards to Achilles.

Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character of Homer's Iliad.

The character's name is derived from that of Chryseis, a character who appears in the Iliad but has no connection with Troilus, Diomedes or Calchas.

The woman in the love triangle is here called not Cressida but Briseida, a name derived from that of Briseis, a different character in the Iliad, who again is neither related to Calchas nor involved in any love affairs with Troilus or Diomedes.

Famously Aristotle in his Poetics criticises the Cypria and Little Iliad for the piecemeal character of their plots:

* Omero, Iliade, Feltrinelli 2004 ; An Iliad, Vintage International 2004 ( ISBN 978-0-307-27539-4 )-a rewriting of Homer's Iliad consisting of 24 chapters, each telling a part of the story through the eyes and words of a prominent character in the poem.

The generic name comes from Astyanax, a character in Greek mythology who was the son of Hector of Troy ; in homage to this, several specific epithets also refer to the Iliad.

Although he was a major character in the Trojan War as the prince of Nauplia leading the Nauplians, Palamedes is not mentioned in Homer's Iliad.

In ancient Greece, the earliest mention of oratorical skill occurs in Homer's Iliad, where heroes like Achilles, Hektor, and Odysseus were honored for their ability to advise and exhort their peers and followers ( the Laos or army ) in wise and appropriate action.

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.

" Hence it often means the life of a man, as in Homer, where one's life ( aion ) is said to leave him or to consume away ( Iliad v. 685 ; Odyssey v. 160 ).

A story very similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, where the young Nestor fights and conquers the giant Ereuthalion.

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.

Homer narrates that during a brief stop-over in the small island of Kranai, where, according to Iliad, the two lovers consummated their passion.

The earliest written mention of horai is in the Iliad where they appear as keepers of Zeus's cloud gates.

The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by Odysseus and Diomedes.

An example of this can be found in the Iliad where Achilles was given the choice ( or Keres ) between either a long and obscure life and home, or death at Troy and everlasting glory.

Homer also confirmed Hypnos and Thanatos as twin brothers in his epic poem, the Iliad, where they were charged by Zeus via Apollo with the swift delivery of the slain hero Sarpedon to his homeland of Lycia.

In Homer's Iliad, he fought in the Trojan War, where he was brother-in-arms of Diomedes, and one of the Greeks to enter the Trojan Horse.

Walter Burkert notes the presence of Tethys in the episode of Iliad XIV that the Ancients called the " Deception of Zeus ", where Hera, to mislead Zeus, says she wants to go to Oceanus, " origin of the gods " and Tethys " the mother ".

Iris is frequently mentioned as a divine messenger in the Iliad which is attributed to Homer, but does not appear in his Odyssey, where Hermes fills that role.

* The Trojan War tapestry referred to by Homer in Book III of the Iliad, where Iris disguises herself as Laodice and finds Helen " working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Ares had made them fight for her sake.

He is mentioned in Book VI of Homer's Iliad where he is killed by Diomedes.

The earliest recorded mention of Chalcis is in the Iliad ( 2. 537 ), where it is mentioned in the same line as its rival Eretria.

The first historical record about the Thracians is found in the Iliad, where they are described as allies of the Trojans in the Trojan War against the Greeks.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

* Myrmidons ( n .) ant-men in Metamorphoses and in Homer's Iliad, where they are Achilles ' warriors

Hilary Mackie has detected in the Iliad a consistent differentiation between representations in Greek of Achaean and Trojan speech, where Achaeans repeatedly engage in public, ritualized abuse: " Achaeans are proficient at blame, while Trojans perform praise poetry.

Upon a reading of the Iliad, where the residents of the Peloponnesus and adjacent islands are often called Achaeans, and taking into account mention of the Ahhiyawa in Hittite sources from the Late Bronze Age, the theory suggests itself that the Mycenaeans could possibly even be Achaeans.

The relationship between Tenedos and Apollo is mentioned in Book I of the Iliad where a priest calls to Apollo with the name " O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might "( Iliad I ).