The Iliad of Homer
Homer, Samuel Butler (Translator), Louise Ropes Loomis (Editor)
The Iliad relates the tale of the Trojan War, about the war between Greece and Troy, brought about by the kidnapping of the beautiful Greek princess, Helen, by Paris. Set toward the end of the Trojan War -- a 10-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states -- the poem depicts significant events in the war's final weeks. In particular, it traces the anger of Achilles, a celebrated warrior, from a fierce quarrel between him and King Agamemnon, to the death of the Trojan prince Hector
Print Book, English, 1942
Published for the Classics Club by Walter J. Black, Inc., Roslyn, N.Y., 1942