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The Iliad of Homer

by Homer (750–650 BCE)

Portrait of Homer
Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0

33 chapters, about 158,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1 200 words
  2. PREFACE. 3,500 words
  3. PREPARED BY MR. COWPER, FOR A SECOND EDITION. 1,400 words
  4. PREFACE 1,300 words
  5. ADVERTISEMENT TO SOUTHEY’S EDITION 400 words
  6. EDITOR’S NOTE. 300 words
  7. ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST BOOK. 100 words
  8. BOOK I. 5,600 words
  9. BOOK II. 7,500 words
  10. BOOK III. 3,900 words
  11. BOOK IV. 4,800 words
  12. BOOK V. 7,900 words
  13. BOOK VI. 4,600 words
  14. BOOK VII. 3,800 words
  15. ARGUMENT OF THE EIGHTH BOOK. 200 words
  16. BOOK VIII. 4,700 words
  17. BOOK IX. 6,600 words
  18. BOOK X. 5,100 words
  19. BOOK XI. 7,700 words
  20. BOOK XII. 4,300 words
  21. BOOK XIII. 7,200 words
  22. BOOK XIV. 4,700 words
  23. BOOK XV. 6,800 words
  24. BOOK XVI. 7,700 words
  25. BOOK XVII. 6,700 words
  26. BOOK XVIII. 5,700 words
  27. BOOK XIX. 3,900 words
  28. BOOK XX. 4,600 words
  29. BOOK XXI. 4,900 words
  30. BOOK XXII. 4,600 words
  31. BOOK XXIII. 8,200 words
  32. BOOK XXIV. 7,100 words
  33. FOOTNOTES 11,600 words

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