Timeless Classics: The Iliad (Illustrated)

*Illustrated
*Includes a table of contents

In the Timeless Classics series, Charles River Editors is republishing civilization’s greatest literary works and bringing them to a new generation via ebooks. Timeless Classics offers a wide range of history’s greatest writing, including the acclaimed fictional stories of Jonathan Swift and Washington Irving, the political treatises of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, the epic poetry of Homer, and more.

Perhaps the most famous epic poem ever written, Homer’s The Iliad has been read for nearly 3,000 years, making it also one of the oldest written works in the Western world. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the Trojan War, the poem has made characters like Paris, Helen, Achilles, Hector, and Ajax instantly recognizable, and the Trojan Horse made people caution of “Greeks bearing gifts.” Homer’s poetry influenced Virgil and every other great poet ever since, and it literally put Troy on the map, motivating Heinrich Schliemann to search for and ultimately find the city of Troy in the 19th century.

This edition of Homer’s The Iliad includes a table of contents and is illustrated.