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The Iliad
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Introduction
Translator's note
Maps
The quarrel
The multitude
Gifts of the goddess
First blood
Gods on the battlefield
Price of honor
A duel
The scales tip
The embassy
Espionage by night
Wounds
The wall
The waves
An afternoon nap
Fire at the ships
Love and death
Battle for a dead man
Divine armor
A meal before dying
The warrior's return
The river
A race to death
Funeral games
A time to mourn
Notes
Genealogies
Glossary
Acknowledgments.
From the Book
Introduction: Spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names
Maps
Homeric geography: Mainland Greece
Homeric geography: Peloponnese
Homeric geography: Aegean and Asia minor
Inset: Troy and vicinity
Homer: Iliad
Rage of Achilles
Great gathering of Armies
Helen reviews the champions
Truce erupts in war
Diomedes fights the gods
Hector returns to Troy
Ajax duels with Hector
Tide of battle turns
Embassy of Achilles
Marauding through the night
Agamemnon's day of glory
Trojans storm the rampart
Battling for the ships
Hera outflanks Zeus
Achaean Armies the bay
Patroclus fights and dies
Menelaus' finest hour
Shield of Achilles
Champion arms for battle
Olympian gods in arms
Achilles fights the river
Death of Hector
Funeral games for Patroclus
Achilles and Priam
Notes: Genealogy of the royal house of Troy
Textual Variants from the Oxford classical text
Notes on the translation
Suggestions for further reading
Pronouncing glossary.