The Iliad

Title: The Iliad
Author: Homer
Written: circa 700 BCE
Translator: Samuel Butler, 1898
Pages: 407
Structure: 24 “books”, each about 400 to 900 lines (10 to 20 pages) long.

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The Iliad is the greatest book I have read. It’s hard work, but worth it. This epic of passion, bitterness, heartache and mercy are unparalleled in any literature or religious works available today. Any.

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