Homer published by DemoPublisher
History, Bio & Memoir
published 588 days ago
about 139497 words

The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege, the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war and similar, tending to appear near the beginning, and the events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly approaching the end of the poem, making the poem tell a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War.
Along with the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer, the Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the eighth century BC. The Iliad contains over 15,000 lines, and is written in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek with other dialects.

Chap. #	Title	# Words
1	PREFATORY NOTE	235
2	NOTE TO REVISED EDITION	390
3	BOOK I.	6613
4	BOOK II.	9010
5	BOOK III.	4771
6	BOOK IV.	5785
7	BOOK V.	6323
8	BOOK VI.	3635
9	BOOK VII.	4227
10	BOOK VIII.	4490
11	BOOK IX.	5106
12	BOOK X.	6235
13	BOOK XI.	5703
14	BOOK XII.	4948
15	BOOK XIII.	9185
16	BOOK XIV.	4006
17	BOOK XV.	3470
18	BOOK XVI.	6800
19	BOOK XVII.	4767
20	BOOK XVIII.	5198
21	BOOK XIX.	4451
22	BOOK XX.	5205
23	BOOK XXI.	6251
24	BOOK XXII.	5443
25	BOOK XXIII.	8374
26	BOOK XXIV.	8820