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The Iliad

by Homer (750–650 BCE)

30 chapters, about 141,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. INTRODUCTION. 9,800 words
3. POPE’S PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER 8,900 words
4. THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. 4,800 words
5. ARGUMENT. 4,300 words
6. THE CATALOGUE OF THE SHIPS.[101] 3,200 words
7. THE DUEL OF MENELAUS AND PARIS. 4,300 words
8. ARGUMENT. 4,500 words
9. THE ACTS OF DIOMED. 5,900 words
10. ARGUMENT. 4,500 words
11. THE SINGLE COMBAT OF HECTOR AND AJAX. 3,600 words
12. ARGUMENT. 4,800 words
13. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES. 5,400 words
14. THE NIGHT-ADVENTURE OF DIOMED AND ULYSSES. 4,200 words
15. THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON. 5,900 words
16. THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL. 3,500 words
17. ARGUMENT. 6,800 words
18. JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS. 4,400 words
19. ARGUMENT. 5,600 words
20. ARGUMENT 6,800 words
21. ARGUMENT. 4,900 words
22. ARGUMENT. 4,900 words
23. THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. 2,600 words
24. ARGUMENT. 2,800 words
25. THE BATTLE IN THE RIVER SCAMANDER.[269] 4,200 words
26. THE DEATH OF HECTOR. 4,200 words
27. FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOUR OF PATROCLUS.[280] 6,700 words
28. THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. 5,700 words
29. CONCLUDING NOTE. 500 words
30. END OF THE ILIAD 3,700 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Bellerophon

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