The Iliad, a Greek epic by Homer, Composed in dactylic hexameters, consists of 15,693 verses and its plot lies in the anger of Achilles. It narrates the events that occurred during 51 days in the tenth and last year of the Trojan War.
The Iliad
The Iliad is a Greek epic attributed to Homer, divided into 24 songs with 15,693
hexameter verses, a metric form typical of classical Greek and Latin literature. The
historical context is set in a war possibly between Troy and the Greek polis that
should have taken place in the 9th century B.C. and its plot lies in the anger of
Achilles. It chronicles the events of 51 days in the tenth and final year of the Trojan
War.
This poem begins with the Greek army plundering Chrysa a people allied to Troy,
Agamemnon kidnaps Chryseida and Achilles kidnaps Briseida, crises father of
Chryseida asks Agamemnon to return his daughter but this time humiliates him and
does not surrender her, crises goes to the God Apollo, who sent a plague towards the
Greek camp, Achilles consults decals for the reason of the plague, decals tells him that
only if Agamemnon returns to chryseida his father will end the plague, so that
Agamemnon returns to chrism, but instead takes to Briseida the slave of Achilles,
Achilles goes into anger and withdraws from the war , as revenge Achilles asks his
mother Tethys to intercede with Zeus so that the war be adverse, Agamemnon asks to
continue with the fight against the Trojans but, by not having his fearsome Achilles,
the Trojans who at first had half ceased to have it, and were encouraged to fight
outside the walls, commanded by Hector, prince of the Trojans who had decided to
end the Greeks. Prince Trojan Paris challenges the Greek king Menelaus Paris who
caused the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen who was Menelaus' wife fighting
in singular duel with the return the victor would stay with Helen, and when Menelaus
is about to kill Paris, Aphrodite appears to save his life. After this both sides are given
a truce to honor their dead.
The gods gather and Zeus announces that he plans to end the war and that no one
should intervene, Hera and Athena try to help the Greeks but Zeus stops them
although they finally decide that the war must continue. Hector orders the Trojans to
camp overnight and prepare for tomorrow’s battle, Agamemnon realizes how close
and cornered they are by the Trojans, and in an assembly,
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