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    A Study Guide for Homer's Iliad
    A Study Guide for Homer's Iliad
    A Study Guide for Homer's Iliad
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    A Study Guide for Homer's Iliad

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    A Study Guide for Homer's "Iliad," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Epics for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Epics for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781535825634
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      Iliad

      Homer

      C. 700 BCE

      Introduction

      Western literature began with the Iliad. The Epic of Gilgamesh is at least two thousand years older, but it is neither as well-known nor as influential in the West as Homer's work. Nearly three thousand years after Homer's poem was written, expressions such as Achilles heel, Trojan horse, or the face that launched a thousand ships, are still used, all with roots in the Iliad or rather the mythic cycle on which it is based. Also, at least in terms of the number of copies to survive from antiquity, the poems of Homer are second only to the Bible in popularity.

      Although Iliad means the story of Ilion, or Troy, the poem has much more to say about Achilles and Hector than it does about Troy. As the first word of the Greek text suggests, this poem has a lot to do with anger or rage. Honor, glory, and fate are also frequent themes.

      As a classical epic, the Iliad uses epithets, or formulaic phrases to describe an individual, an object, or even some events. It also uses similes. For example, in Book 11 Ajax is compared

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