Iliad

But the man in his freedom, who co-operates with the God in the providential order, is often brought before the reader in the Iliad as well as in the Odyssey (see author's _Com. on the Iliad_, pp. 129, 157, 216, etc.).

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

In that case -- the _Odyssey_ being later than the original kernel of the Iliad -- the _Odyssey_ ought to give us gods as undignified and unworthy as those exhibited by the later continuators of the _Iliad_.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

Assembly, but Achilles appealed to his mother, the fair sea - goddess, as in our Iliad, and she obtained from Zeus, as in the actual _Iliad_, his promise to honour Achilles by giving victory, in his absence, to the Trojans.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

When you come to see that the Iliad is as great a gift to the race as the doings of Achilles, that the Iliads are more significant than the doings they celebrate, you will cease to classify men into doers and singers.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

In fact the tension between Weil's revulsion toward and attraction to violence informs, indeed propels, the essay (in her first paragraph she describes the implacable power of force in sexually submissive terms, and avers that for those perceptive enough to place violence at the center of human history, "the Iliad is the purest and the loveliest of mirrors").

The Lost Crusade 2005

In fact the tension between Weil's revulsion toward and attraction to violence informs, indeed propels, the essay (in her first paragraph she describes the implacable power of force in sexually submissive terms, and avers that for those perceptive enough to place violence at the center of human history, "the Iliad is the purest and the loveliest of mirrors").

The Lost Crusade 2005

The "Iliad" is beautful with all the truth, and grace and simplicity of a wonderfully childlike people while the "Æneid" is more stately and reserved.

The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

His Iliad is powerful, almost overwhelming, his Odyssey utterly charming, and I recommend them to anyone who wishes to read — or reread — Homer's two great epics.

The Best Epic Translations: Lattimore (Iliad), Fagles (Odyssey), Fitzgerald (Aeneid), Pinsky (Inferno), Merwin (Purgatorio), Mandelbaum (Paradiso) Jonathan Aquino 2009

Along with The Odyssey, The Iliad is one of the oldest extant works of Western literature and helped establish the practice of committing oral history and stories to paper, rather than preserving them solely by word of mouth.

100 Greatest Books #25-21 | Fandomania 2010

Thus, the Iliad is merely a long epic poem to those American students who even know anything about it, while it was effectively a “sacred poem” to the Athenians of Greece in the fourth century B.C.

Of Sacred Poets and Sacredness « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008