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Christa Wolf's 1983 novel, Kassandra, is a critical engagement with the stuff of the Iliad.

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Priam, the father of Hector, ransoms his son's body, and the Iliad ends with the funeral of Hector.

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The action of the Iliad covers only a few weeks of the tenth and final year of the Trojan War.

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Throughout much of their history, scholars of the written word treated the Iliad and Odyssey as literary poems, and Homer as a writer much like themselves.

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The Iliad has a very strong religious and supernatural element.

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The first word of the Iliad is ????? (m?nin), "rage" or "wrath."

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One of the remarkable things about the Iliad is the way that Achilles, especially in Book 9, both embraces concepts of honor and glory and also rejects them.

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Of the many themes in the Iliad, perhaps the most important is the idea of moral choice.

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The Iliad has been translated into English for centuries.

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The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, purportedly a blind Ionian poet.

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The Iliad and the Odyssey were considered by Greeks of the classical age, and later, as the most important works in Ancient Greek literature, and were the basis of Greek pedagogy in antiquity.

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The first word of the Iliad is ????? (m?nin), "rage" or "wrath."

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The Iliad's huge cast of characters connects the Trojan War to many Greek myths, such as Jason and the Argonauts, the Seven Against Thebes, and the Labors of Hercules.

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The Iliad contains a sometimes confusingly great number of characters.

“The Iliad” (Gr: “Iliás”) is an epic poem by the ancient Greek poet Homer, which recounts some of the significant events of the final weeks of the Trojan War and the Greek siege of the city of Troy (which was also known as Ilion, Ilios or Ilium in ancient times).