- Published: 24 April 1992
- ISBN: 9781857150605
- Imprint: Everyman
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 594
- RRP: $39.99
The Iliad

















'Martin Hammond's modern prose version is the best and most accurate there has ever been' - Peter Levi in the Independent
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals.
- Published: 24 April 1992
- ISBN: 9781857150605
- Imprint: Everyman
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 594
- RRP: $39.99
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About the author
Homer, name traditionally assigned to the author of the ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY, the two major epics of Greek antiquity. Nothing is known of Homer as an individual, and in fact it is a matter of controversy whether a single person can be said to have written both the ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY. Linguistic and historical evidence, however, suggests that the poems were composed in the Greek settlements on the west coast of Asia Minor sometime in the 8th century BC.
Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.