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.

In Homer's Iliad, when Alcmene was about to give birth to Heracles, Zeus announced to all the gods that on that day a child, descended from Zeus himself, would be born who would rule all those around him.

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:

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

In the Iliad when Zeus sends Apollo to revive the wounded Hector of Troy, Apollo, holding the aegis, charges the Achaeans, pushing them back to their ships drawn up on the shore.

In the Iliad she came to blows with Hera, when the divine allies of the Greeks and Trojans engaged each other in conflict.

In Iliad XVIII, when Thetis cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for the slain Patroclus:

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.

Also in the Iliad, when the River Scamander, indignant at the sight of so many corpses in his water, overflows and threatens to drown Achilles, the latter grasps a branch of a great elm in an attempt to save himself (« ὁ δὲ πτελέην ἕλε χερσὶν εὐφυέα μεγάλην ».

According to a legend, when Phidias was asked what inspired him — whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Pheidias could see him — the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 – 530 of Homer's Iliad:

It is unknown exactly when and how the Mausoleum came to ruin, but according to Eustathius in the 12th century on his commentary of the Iliad, " it was and is a wonder ".

Themis is not wrathful: she, " of the lovely cheeks ", was the first to offer Hera a cup when she returned to Olympus distraught over threats from Zeus ( Iliad xv.

In the Iliad, it is told how, when Patroclus was killed in battle, Xanthus and Balius stood motionless on the field of battle, and wept.

According to Book 1 of the Iliad, when Agamemnon was compelled by Apollo to give up his own woman, Chryseis, he demanded Briseis as compensation.

During the Trojan War ( prior to the actions described in Homer's Iliad ), Agamemnon took Chryses ' daughter Chryseis ( Astynome ) from Moesia as a war prize and when Chryses attempted to ransom her, refused to return her.

For ancient Greeks, the island was sacred to Hephaestus, god of metallurgy, who — as he tells himself in Iliad I. 590ff — fell on Lemnos when Zeus hurled him headlong out of Olympus.

According to one story, found in the Iliad, he was accidentally killed in his old age by Heracles ' son Tlepolemus, when the latter was beating his servant with a stick and Licymnius ran in between ( or else Tlepolemus and Licymnius had a quarrel over a certain matter ).

In Homer's Iliad, Podarces and Protesilaus were former suitors of Helen, and therefore bound to defend the marriage rights of Menelaus, her husband, when Helen was kidnapped by Paris.

It happened right at the beginning of the campaign in Asia, when Alexander led a contingent of the army to visit Troy, scene of the events in his beloved Iliad.

In one of the commentary sequences, the film's writer, David Benioff, said that when it came to deciding whether to follow Iliad or do what was best for the film, they always decided with what was best for the film.

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.

However, when she came across a painting depicting the parting of Hector from Andromache in the Iliad, she burst into tears.

Some major acquisitions of complete libraries were the manuscripts of the Benedictine monastery of Bobbio ( 1606 ) and the library of the Paduan Vincenzo Pinelli, whose more than 800 manuscripts filled 70 cases when they were sent to Milan and included the famous Iliad, the Ilia Picta.

The reference to Phthia is itself a reference to Homer's Iliad ( ix. 363 ), when Achilles, upset at having his war-prize, Briseis, taken by Agamemnon, rejects Agamemnon's conciliatory presents and threatens to set sail in the morning ; he says that with good weather he might arrive on the third day " in fertile Phthia " — his home.

According to the Iliad, during the Trojan War, Diomedes fought Hector and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans ' side.

Agamemnon, Diomedes, and other heroes from Argolís ’ s fertile plain figure prominently in the Iliad of Homer.

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

Throughout the Iliad, Diomedes and Nestor are frequently seen speaking first in war-counsel.

Diomedes is one of the main characters in the Iliad.

Some scholars claim that this part of the epic was originally a separate, independent poem ( describing the feats of Diomedes ) that Homer adapted and included in the Iliad.

According to the Little Iliad, on the way to the ships, Odysseus plotted to kill Diomedes and claim the Palladium ( or perhaps the credit for gaining it ) for himself.

Neither Homer nor Virgil gives the reader any foreshadowing of Diomedes's death except for a passage in the Iliad in which Dione, Aphrodite's mother, comforts the goddess of love ( after she has been injured by Diomedes ), telling her daughter that " the man who fights the gods does not live long " and will not be welcomed home from war by his children on his lap ( 5. 407-409 ).

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

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:

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.

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

In Book VIII of the Iliad, his son Archeptolemus suddenly becomes the charioteer of Hector when Eniopeus is killed by Diomedes.

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.

Also in the Iliad, another instance of this phenomenon can be found in Diomedes ' outstanding performance in battle, empowered by Athena ( Book V ) as well as Hector's in the Trojan assault on the Achaian camp in Book VIII ( with the help of Zeus ) and Patroklos ' aristeia of Book XVI, which ultimately leads to his demise at the hands of Hector.

* The war cry is an aspect of epic battle in Homer: in the Iliad, Diomedes is conventionally called " Diomedes of the loud war cry.

According to the Epic Cycle narrative of the Little Iliad, on the way to the ships, Odysseus plotted to kill Diomedes and claim the Palladium ( or perhaps the credit for gaining it ) for himself.

According to Homer's Iliad, he was killed by Odysseus and Diomedes.

| 30698 Hippokoon || 2299 T-3 || Hippokoon, mythological friend of king Rhesos of Thracia, awoken by Apollo as Odysseus and Diomedes were killing the Thracians ( from the Iliad )

Rhesus or Rhêsos () was a Thracian king who fought on the side of Trojans in Iliad, Book X, where Diomedes and Odysseus stole his team of fine horses during a night raid on the Trojan camp.