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The Iliad of Homer, by Edward, Earl of Derby, at Project Gutenberg; The Iliad of Homer, by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Meyers, at Project Gutenberg; The Iliad of Homer, by Samuel Butler, at Project Gutenberg; Iliad : from the Perseus Project , with the Murray and Butler translations and hyperlinks to mythological and grammatical commentary
Before the Battle of Pharsalus, a verse of Homer occurred to Brutus which suggested that Pompey would be defeated. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus ( r. 217–218 ) is known to have used sortes Homericae properly speaking, where a verse was chosen by lot that supposedly foretold his fate that he would not last long on the ...
Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...
a full text of the Iliad in ancient Greek; marginal critical marks, shown by finds of ancient papyri to reflect fairly accurately those that would have been in Aristarchus' edition of the Iliad; damaged excerpts from Proclus' Chrestomathy, namely the Life of Homer, and summaries of all of the Epic Cycle except the Cypria
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of principal characters in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Greeks in the Trojan War
The Ilias Latina is a short Latin hexameter version of the Iliad of Homer that gained popularity in Antiquity and remained popular through the Middle Ages. It was very widely studied and read in Medieval schools as part of the standard Latin educational curriculum. According to Ernest Robert Curtius, it is a "crude condensation", into 1070 ...