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The Iliad
Chapitres (25)
- Preface 0:00
- Book I: The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon 22:10
- Book II: The Trial of the Army, and Catalogue of the Forces 1:08:08
- Book III: Single Combat of Menelaus and Paris 2:12:45
- Book IV: The Breaking of the Truce, and the First Battle 2:46:35
- Book V: The Exploits of Diomed 3:28:16
- Book VI: Interviews Between Glaucus and Diomed, and Hector and Andromache 4:35:44
- Book VII: The Combat of Hector and Ajax 5:14:36
- Book VIII: The Second Battle 5:49:57
- Book IX: The Embassy to Achilles 6:31:13
- Book X: The Night-Adventure of Diomed and Ulysses 7:24:16
- Book XI: The Third Battle, and Exploits of Agamemnon 8:05:26
- Book XII: The Battle at the Grecian Wall 9:07:46
- Book XIII: The Continuation of the Fourth Battle 9:41:23
- Book XIV: The Fraud Practised on Jupiter by Juno 10:43:44
- Book XV: The Fifth Battle at the Ships 11:21:59
- Book XVI: The Sixth Battle—Death of Patroclus 12:18:00
- Book XVII: The Seventh Battle 13:23:07
- Book XVIII: The Grief of Achilles for the Death of Patroclus 14:17:07
- Book XIX: The Reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon 15:03:15
- Book XX: The Battle of the Gods 15:34:53
- Book XXI: The Battle in the River Scamander 16:12:42
- Book XXII: The Death of Hector 16:56:56
- Book XXIII: The Funeral of Patroclus 17:35:55
- Book XXIV: The Body of Hector Recovered 18:41:38
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The Iliad is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Odyssey. Written in an early literary dialect of ancient Greek, both poems were originally composed in dactylic hexameters. This meter is beautiful in the original but can sound awkward in modern English; Eric McMillan humorously described it as resembling “pumpkins rolling on a barn floor.” In the translation presented here, William Cullen Bryant avoids the problem by using iambic pentameter, a more familiar meter for verse in English.
This epic poem begins with the Achaean army sacking the city of Chryse and capturing two maidens as prizes of war. One of the maidens, Chryseis, is given to Agamemnon, the leader of the Achaeans, and the other maiden, Briseis, was given to the army’s best warrior, Achilles. Chryseis’ father, the city’s priest, prays to the god Apollo and asks for a plague on the Achaean army. To stop this plague, Agamemnon returns Chryseis to her father, but then orders Achilles to give him Briseis as compensation. Achilles refuses.