Homer · Il.

Iliad

Ἰλιάς

The wrath of Achilles and the war at Troy.

This edition presents the original Greek (Allen 1931) side by side with English translations (A. T. Murray, Samuel Butler, Alexander Pope) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 24 books, 0 chapters.

See also: Odyssey

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• Murray Greek & English · A. T. Murray (Loeb, 1924–25)
• Butler Greek & English · Samuel Butler (1898)
• Pope Greek & English · Alexander Pope (literary translation — alignment approximate), 1715–20

Books

• Book 1 611 lines Agamemnon and Achilles quarrel over Briseis; Achilles withdraws, and Zeus is petitioned.
• Book 2 877 lines Agamemnon tests the troops; Odysseus quells the panic; the opposing armies are catalogued.
• Book 3 461 lines Paris duels Menelaus for Helen; Aphrodite rescues him from defeat.
• Book 4 544 lines The gods renew the war; Pandarus wounds Menelaus, breaking the truce; battle resumes.
• Book 5 909 lines Diomedes' aristeia: he routs Trojans, wounds Aphrodite and Ares, aided throughout by Athena.
• Book 6 529 lines Hector returns to Troy for prayers; meets Glaucus, then Andromache, before rejoining battle.
• Book 7 482 lines Hector duels Ajax; armies truce to bury their dead and build the Achaean wall.
• Book 8 565 lines Zeus bars the gods from war; Trojans rout the Achaeans and camp on the plain.
• Book 9 709 lines Agamemnon's envoys offer Achilles rich gifts to return; he refuses to rejoin the fight.
• Book 10 579 lines Odysseus and Diomedes raid the Trojan camp by night, killing Dolon and Rhesus.
• Book 11 847 lines Agamemnon's aristeia gives way to Trojan gains as Hector nears the ships.
• Book 12 471 lines Hector breaches the Achaean wall and drives the Danaans back to their ships.
• Book 13 837 lines Poseidon secretly rallies the Achaeans while Idomeneus wins a bloody aristeia at the ships.
• Book 14 521 lines Hera seduces Zeus asleep on Ida while Poseidon secretly turns the battle for the Achaeans.
• Book 15 746 lines Zeus revives Hector through Apollo and drives the Achaeans back to their ships.
• Book 16 867 lines Patroclus, wearing Achilles's armor, routs the Trojans, kills Sarpedon, and is slain by Hector.
• Book 17 761 lines Menelaus and Aias guard Patroclus's corpse through fierce fighting as Antilochus runs to warn Achilles.
• Book 18 617 lines Achilles mourns Patroclus, routs Trojans unarmed at the trench, and Thetis secures him new armor.
• Book 19 424 lines Achilles ends his wrath, receives divine armor, and returns to battle after mourning Patroclus.
• Book 20 503 lines The gods join the war as Achilles duels Aeneas and rampages through the Trojan ranks.
• Book 21 611 lines Achilles slaughters Trojans at the Scamander, battles the river, and nears Troy's walls.
• Book 22 515 lines Achilles chases Hector around Troy's walls, kills him, and drags his body toward the ships.
• Book 23 897 lines The Achaeans cremate Patroclus overnight and hold funeral games the next day in his honor.
• Book 24 804 lines The gods relent; Priam ransoms Hector's body from Achilles by night, and Troy buries him.

Greek text & translations

Greek: Greek text of T. W. Allen’s editio maior (Oxford, 1931), from a licensed TLG export; Il. 8.548, 550–552, omitted by Allen, are supplied from the vulgate (Perseus) and rendered as athetized.
Translations: A. T. Murray (Loeb, 1924–25); Samuel Butler (1898); Alexander Pope (literary translation — alignment approximate), 1715–20.
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