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.

" 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.

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.

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

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

From Cronus, of the race of Titans, the Olympian gods have their birth, and Hera mentions twice in Iliad book XIV her intended journey " to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Oceanus, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own house.

In the Iliad, Diomedes, one of the leading warriors of the Achaeans, mentions the thyrsus while speaking to Glaucus, one of the Lycian commanders in the Trojan army, about Lycurgus, the king of Scyros:

Homer, in the Iliad, mentions a daughter named Hippodameia, their eldest (" the darling of her father and mother "), who married her cousin Alcathous.

Homer's Iliad mentions another Anchises, a wealthy native of Sicyon in Greece and father of Echepolus.

Homer gives the Paeonian leader as a certain Pyraechmes ( parentage unknown ); but later on in the Iliad ( Book 21 ) Homer mentions a second leader, named Asteropaeus, son of Pelagon.

Homer's Iliad mentions the Tenedos of this era.

Homer's Iliad mentions at several points the tomb of Ilus son of Dardanus in the middle of the Trojan plain.

Homer, in the Iliad, mentions the Curetes () as a legendary people who took part in the quarrel over the Calydonian Boar.

Homer provides us with information about the city, who mentions it in his list of ships ( Iliad B695 ) together with Fylaki and Itona, which belonged to the kingdom of Protessilaos.

Homer's " Catalogue of Ships " in the Iliad mentions the cities of Mani: Messi ( Mezapos ), Oetylus ( Oitylo ), Kardamili ( or Skardamoula ), Gerenia, Teuthone ( Kotronas ), and Las ( Passavas ).

In Greek mythology, as recorded in Homer's Iliad, Patroclus, or Patroklos (), was the son of Menoetius, grandson of Actor, King of Opus, and was Achilles ' beloved comrade and brother-in-arms.

no individual word in The Iliad or The Odyssey can be credited to any one man ; ;

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

The Achaeans (, Akhaioí ) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad ( used 598 times ) and Odyssey.

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

They later had two children, Andromache and Agamemnon Schliemann ; he reluctantly allowed them to be baptized, but solemnized the ceremony in his own way by placing a copy of the Iliad on the children's heads and reciting one hundred hexameters.

Another story is the one of his love for Nireus, who was " the most beautiful man who came beneath Ilion " ( Iliad, 673 ).

The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably through Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey.

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

" 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 story of Penthesilea segues so smoothly from the Iliad in the Epic Cycle that one manuscript tradition of the Iliad ends

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.

Homer, the author of the oldest known work of European literature, speaks only of one Gorgon, whose head is represented in the Iliad as fixed in the centre of the aegis of Athena:

Enyalios is mentioned nine times in Homer's Iliad and in four of them it is in the same formula describing Meriones who is one of the leaders of warriors from Crete.

In Homer's Iliad Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax as one of the best warriors of all the Achaeans ( behind only Achilles in prowess ).

Diomedes is one of the main characters in the Iliad.

In Iliad XXII ( 149ff ), Homer states that the river had two springs: one produced warm water ; the other yielded cold water, regardless of the season.

The games are described in Book 23 of the Iliad, one of the earliest references to Greek sports.

According to Homer's Iliad Altes was the father of Laothoe, one of the many wives ( or concubines ) of King Priam.

The Iliad also refers to " Pelasgic Argos ", which is most likely to be the plain of Thessaly, and to " Pelasgic Zeus ", living in and ruling over Dodona, which must be the oracular one in Epirus.

Hellanicus of Mytilene, in Fragment 7 of the Argolica, concerns himself with one word in one line of the Iliad, " pasture-land of horses ", applied to Argos in the Peloponnesus.

In Homer's Iliad, Spercheus was the father, by Achilles ' half-sister Polydora, of Menesthius, one of Achilles's commanders.