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This edition of Homer's epic, Iliad, is from the Alexander Pope Translation, tells the story of the final year of the Trojan War. First written in the 8th century BC, after centuries of being passed on orally, the story follows the magnificent Greek warrior Achilles, as well as his rage and the destruction it causes.
Agamemnon, leader of the Greek army, lays siege to the city of Troy, whose prince, Paris, stole the beautiful Helen from Menelaus, King of Sparta and Agamemnon's brother. The chances of victory are struck a damaging blow when Greece's greatest warrior, Achilles, refuses to fight.
Honour, glory, friendship and fate are central to Homer's epic, which marks the birth of the Western literary tradition.
