Table of Contents
291 relations: A History of Warfare, Abbasid Caliphate, Accusative case, Achaeans (Homer), Achilles, Aeneas, Aeneid, Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Age of Bronze (comics), Ajax the Great, Albert Lord, Alexander Pope, Alice Oswald, Ambrosian Iliad, American Journal of Philology, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek religion, Andromache, Annotation, Antilochus of Pylos, Aphrodite, Apollo, Archaic Greece, Ares, Argos, Peloponnese, Astyanax, Athena, Automedon, Baghdad, Balius and Xanthus, Barbara Graziosi, Battle of Kadesh, Bellerophon, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Bicameral mentality, Briseis, British Museum, Broadway theatre, Bronze Age, Brooklyn College, Brutus of Troy, Byzantine Empire, Calchas, Cambridge University Press, Caroline Alexander (author), Cassandra, Cassandra (novel), Catalogue of Ships, ... Expand index (241 more) »
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A History of Warfare
A History of Warfare is a 1993 book by military historian John Keegan, which was published by Random House.
See Iliad and A History of Warfare
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
See Iliad and Abbasid Caliphate
Accusative case
In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb.
Achaeans (Homer)
The Achaeans or Akhaians (Akhaioí, "the Achaeans" or "of Achaea") is one of the names in Homer which is used to refer to the Greeks collectively.
See Iliad and Achaeans (Homer)
Achilles
In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.
Aeneas
In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (from) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus).
See Iliad and Aeneas
Aeneid
The Aeneid (Aenē̆is or) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Iliad and Aeneid are Trojan War literature.
See Iliad and Aeneid
Aeschylus
Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος; /524 – /455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy.
Agamemnon
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn) was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War.
Age of Bronze (comics)
Age of Bronze is an American comics series by writer/artist Eric Shanower retelling the legend of the Trojan War. Iliad and Age of Bronze (comics) are Trojan War literature.
See Iliad and Age of Bronze (comics)
Ajax the Great
Ajax or Aias (Aíās, Αἴαντος Aíantos; archaic ΑΣϜΑϺ) is a Greek mythological hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer.
Albert Lord
Albert Bates Lord (15 September 1912 – 29 July 1991) was a professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Harvard University who carried on Milman Parry's research on epic poetry after Parry's death.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.
Alice Oswald
Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald (née Keen; born 31 August 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire.
Ambrosian Iliad
The Ambrosian Iliad or Ilias Picta (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 205 Inf.) is a 5th-century illuminated manuscript on vellum, which depicts the entirety of Homer's Iliad, including battle scenes and noble scenes.
American Journal of Philology
The American Journal of Philology is a quarterly academic journal established in 1880 by the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
See Iliad and American Journal of Philology
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Ancient Greek religion
Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult practices.
See Iliad and Ancient Greek religion
Andromache
In Greek mythology, Andromache (Ἀνδρομάχη) was the wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes.
Annotation
An annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information.
Antilochus of Pylos
In Greek mythology, Antilochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίλοχος Antílokhos) was a prince of Pylos and one of the Achaeans in the Trojan War.
See Iliad and Antilochus of Pylos
Aphrodite
Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.
Apollo
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.
See Iliad and Apollo
Archaic Greece
Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period.
Ares
Ares (Ἄρης, Árēs) is the Greek god of war and courage.
See Iliad and Ares
Argos, Peloponnese
Argos (Άργος; Ἄργος) is a city and former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and one of the oldest in Europe.
See Iliad and Argos, Peloponnese
Astyanax
In Greek mythology, Astyanax (Ἀστυάναξ Astyánax, "lord of the city") was the son of Hector, the crown prince of Troy, and his wife, Princess Andromache of Cilician Thebe.
Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
See Iliad and Athena
Automedon
In Greek mythology, Automedon (Ancient Greek: Αὐτομέδων), son of Diores, was Achilles' charioteer, who drove the immortal horses Balius and Xanthos.
Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.
Balius and Xanthus
Balius (Ancient Greek: Βάλιος, Balios, possibly "dappled") and Xanthus (Ancient Greek: Ξάνθος, Xanthos, "blonde") were, according to Greek mythology, two immortal horses, the offspring of the harpy Podarge and the West wind, Zephyrus.
See Iliad and Balius and Xanthus
Barbara Graziosi
Barbara Graziosi is an Italian classicist and academic.
See Iliad and Barbara Graziosi
Battle of Kadesh
The Battle of Kadesh took place in the 13th century BC between the Egyptian Empire led by pharaoh Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire led by king Muwatalli II.
See Iliad and Battle of Kadesh
Bellerophon
Bellerophon or Bellerophontes (Ancient Greek: Βελλεροφών; Βελλεροφόντης; lit. "slayer of Belleros") or Hipponous (Ancient Greek: Ἱππόνοος; lit.
Benoît de Sainte-Maure
Benoît de Sainte-Maure (died 1173) was a 12th-century French poet, most probably from Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine near Tours, France. Iliad and Benoît de Sainte-Maure are Trojan War literature.
See Iliad and Benoît de Sainte-Maure
Bicameral mentality
Bicameral mentality is a hypothesis introduced by Julian Jaynes who argued human ancestors as late as the ancient Greeks did not consider emotions and desires as stemming from their own minds but as the consequences of actions of gods external to themselves.
See Iliad and Bicameral mentality
Briseis
Briseis (Βρισηίς Brīsēís) ("daughter of Briseus"), also known as Hippodameia (Ἱπποδάμεια), is a significant character in the Iliad.
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
See Iliad and Broadway theatre
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States.
See Iliad and Brooklyn College
Brutus of Troy
Brutus, also called Brute of Troy, is a mythical British king.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
See Iliad and Byzantine Empire
Calchas
Calchas (Κάλχας, Kalkhas) is an Argive mantis, or "seer," dated to the Age of Legend, which is an aspect of Greek mythology.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
See Iliad and Cambridge University Press
Caroline Alexander (author)
Caroline Alexander is a British author, classicist and filmmaker.
See Iliad and Caroline Alexander (author)
Cassandra
Cassandra or Kassandra (Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα,, also Κασσάνδρα, and sometimes referred to as Alexandra) in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed.
Cassandra (novel)
Cassandra (Kassandra) is a 1983 novel by the German author Christa Wolf.
See Iliad and Cassandra (novel)
Catalogue of Ships
The Catalogue of Ships (νεῶν κατάλογος, neōn katálogos) is an epic catalogue in Book 2 of Homer's Iliad (2.494–759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army that sailed to Troy.
See Iliad and Catalogue of Ships
Cebriones
In Greek mythology, Cebriones (Ancient Greek: Κεβριόνης, Kebriones) was the illegitimate son of King Priam of Troy and a slave.
Chariot
A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power.
Chivalric romance
As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe.
See Iliad and Chivalric romance
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf (Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011) was a German novelist and essayist.
Christopher Logue
Christopher Logue, CBE (23 November 1926 – 2 December 2011)Mark Espiner, The Guardian, 2 December 2011 was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a pacifist.
See Iliad and Christopher Logue
Chryseis
In Greek mythology, Chryseis (translit) is a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses.
Chryses of Troy
In Greek mythology, Chryses (Greek, Χρύσης Khrúsēs, meaning "golden") was a Trojan priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy.
Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Classical Association
The Classical Association (CA) is an educational organisation which aims to promote and widen access to the study of classical subjects in the United Kingdom.
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Classical Greece
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." (Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece, Yale University Press, 1996, p.
See Iliad and Classical Greece
Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.
Codex Nitriensis
Codex Nitriensis, designated by R or 027 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 22 (von Soden), is a 6th-century Greek New Testament codex containing the Gospel of Luke, in a fragmentary condition.
See Iliad and Codex Nitriensis
Columbia Encyclopedia
The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and, in the last edition, sold by the Gale Group.
See Iliad and Columbia Encyclopedia
Cressida
Cressida (also Criseida, Cresseid or Criseyde) is a character who appears in many Medieval and Renaissance retellings of the story of the Trojan War.
Cronus
In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (or, from Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky).
See Iliad and Cronus
Dactylic hexameter
Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
See Iliad and Dactylic hexameter
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer.
Dares Phrygius
Dares Phrygius (Δάρης), according to Homer, was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. Iliad and Dares Phrygius are Trojan War literature.
David Melnick
David Melnick (1938–2022) was a gay avant-garde American poet.
Demetrios Chalkokondyles
Demetrios Chalkokondyles (Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης Dēmḗtrios Chalkokondýlēs), Latinized as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and found variously as Demetricocondyles, Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles (14239 January 1511), was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West.
See Iliad and Demetrios Chalkokondyles
Destiny
Destiny, sometimes also called fate, is a predetermined course of events.
Dictys Cretensis
Dictys Cretensis, i.e. Dictys of Crete (Δίκτυς ὁ Κρής) of Knossos was a legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and the purported author of a diary of its events, that deployed some of the same materials worked up by Homer for the Iliad. Iliad and Dictys Cretensis are Trojan War literature.
See Iliad and Dictys Cretensis
Diomedes
Diomedes (Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter, James Hartman and Jane Setter, eds. Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. 17th edition. Cambridge UP, 2006.) or Diomede (god-like cunning" or "advised by Zeus) is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War.
Dodona
Dodona (Ionic and, script) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the 2nd millennium BCE according to Herodotus.
See Iliad and Dodona
Dolon (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Dolon (Ancient Greek: Δόλων, gen.: Δόλωνος) fought for Troy during the Trojan War.
See Iliad and Dolon (mythology)
Dorian invasion
The Dorian invasion is a concept devised by historians of Ancient Greece to explain the replacement of pre-classical dialects and traditions in Southern Greece by the ones that prevailed in Classical Greece.
Editio princeps
In textual and classical scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts.
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869), known as Lord Stanley from 1834 to 1851, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
See Iliad and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Ellipsis (linguistics)
In linguistics, ellipsis or an elliptical construction is the omission from a clause of one or more words that are nevertheless understood in the context of the remaining elements.
See Iliad and Ellipsis (linguistics)
Emily Wilson (classicist)
Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
See Iliad and Emily Wilson (classicist)
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
See Iliad and Encyclopædia Britannica
English translations of Homer
Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English since the 16th and 17th centuries.
See Iliad and English translations of Homer
Enkidu
Enkidu (𒂗𒆠𒄭 EN.KI.DU10) was a legendary figure in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk.
See Iliad and Enkidu
Epic Cycle
The Epic Cycle (Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony. Iliad and epic Cycle are Trojan War literature.
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. Iliad and epic of Gilgamesh are poems adapted into films.
See Iliad and Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic poetry
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
Eric A. Havelock
Eric Alfred Havelock (3 June 1903 – 4 April 1988) was a British classicist who spent most of his life in Canada and the United States.
See Iliad and Eric A. Havelock
Eric Shanower
Eric James Shanower (born October 23, 1963) is an American cartoonist, best known for his Oz novels and comics, and for the ongoing retelling of the Trojan War as Age of Bronze.
Euphorbus
In Greek mythology, Euphorbus (Ancient Greek: Εὔφορβος Euphorbos) was a Trojan hero during the Trojan War.
Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
Gallipoli campaign
The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli (Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.
See Iliad and Gallipoli campaign
Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.
Geoffrey Kirk
Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, was a British classicist who served as the 35th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge.
George Chapman
George Chapman (– 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
Giovanni Pastrone
Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 – 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician.
See Iliad and Giovanni Pastrone
Glaucus (son of Hippolochus)
In Greek mythology, Glaucus (Ancient Greek: Γλαῦκος Glaukos means "shiny", "bright" or "bluish-green") was a captain in the Lycian army under the command of his close friend and cousin Sarpedon.
See Iliad and Glaucus (son of Hippolochus)
Greek Dark Ages
The Greek Dark Ages (1200–800 BC), were earlier regarded as two continuous periods of Greek history: the Postpalatial Bronze Age (c. 1200–1050 BC) and the Prehistoric Iron Age or Early Iron Age (c. 1050–800 BC), which included all the ceramic phases from the Protogeometric to the Middle Geometric I and lasted until the beginning of the Protohistoric Iron Age around 800 BC.
Greek underworld
In Greek mythology, the Greek underworld, or Hades, is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death.
See Iliad and Greek underworld
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
See Iliad and Greeks
Gregory Nagy
Gregory Nagy (Nagy Gergely,; born October 22, 1942, in Budapest), gregorynagy.org is an American professor of Classics at Harvard University, specializing in Homer and archaic Greek poetry.
Guido delle Colonne
Guido delle Colonne (in Latin Guido de Columnis or de Columna) was a 13th-century Italian judge and writer, who lived in Messina.
See Iliad and Guido delle Colonne
Hebe (mythology)
Hebe (youth), in ancient Greek religion and mythology, often given the epithet Ganymeda (meaning "Gladdening Princess"), is the goddess of youth or of the prime of life.
See Iliad and Hebe (mythology)
Hector
In Greek mythology, Hector (label) is a Trojan prince, a hero and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War.
See Iliad and Hector
Hecuba
Hecuba (also Hecabe; Hekábē) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War.
See Iliad and Hecuba
Heinrich Schliemann
Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist.
See Iliad and Heinrich Schliemann
Helen of Troy
Helen (Helénē), also known as Helen of Troy, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, and in Latin as Helena, was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.
Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
See Iliad and Hellenistic period
Hephaestus
Hephaestus (eight spellings; Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes.
Hera
In ancient Greek religion, Hera (Hḗrā; label in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth.
See Iliad and Hera
Hermes
Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods.
See Iliad and Hermes
Hero
A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.
See Iliad and Hero
Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Hesiod
Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
See Iliad and Hesiod
Hexameter
Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in Greek as well as in Latin a "foot" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of syllables).
Histories (Herodotus)
The Histories (Ἱστορίαι, Historíai; also known as The History) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature.
See Iliad and Histories (Herodotus)
Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
See Iliad and Homer
Homeric Greek
Homeric Greek is the form of the Greek language that was used in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Homeric Hymns.
Homeric prayer
Prayer features prominently in the works of Homer.
Homeric Question
The Homeric Question concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and their historicity (especially concerning the Iliad).
See Iliad and Homeric Question
Homophonic translation
Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original meaning of the text.
See Iliad and Homophonic translation
Iamb (poetry)
An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.
Iambic pentameter
Iambic pentameter is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.
See Iliad and Iambic pentameter
Idomeneus of Crete
In Greek mythology, Idomeneus (Ἰδομενεύς) was a Cretan king and commander who led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War, in eighty black ships.
See Iliad and Idomeneus of Crete
Ilias Latina
The Ilias Latina is a short Latin hexameter version of the Iliad of Homer that gained popularity in Antiquity and remained popular through the Middle Ages.
Ilium (novel)
Ilium is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, the first part of the Ilium/Olympos cycle, concerning the re-creation of the events in the Iliad on an alternate Earth and Mars.
Image Comics
Image Comics is an American comic book publisher and is the third largest direct market comic book and graphic novel publisher in the industry by market share.
In medias res
A narrative work beginning in medias res ("into the middle of things") opens in the chronological middle of the plot, rather than at the beginning (cf. ab ovo, ab initio).
Invocation
In Western ritual magic, invocations (from the Latin verb invocare "to call on, invoke, to give") are a field involving communicating or interacting with certain incorporeal, supernatural spirits.
Ionic Greek
Ionic or Ionian Greek (Iōnikḗ) was a subdialect of the Eastern or Attic–Ionic dialect group of Ancient Greek.
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Jerome Moross
Jerome Moross (August 1, 1913July 25, 1983) was an American composer best known for his music for film and television.
John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
John Keegan
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist.
John La Touche (lyricist)
John Treville Latouche (La Touche) (November 13, 1914, Baltimore, Maryland – August 7, 1956, Calais, Vermont) was a lyricist and bookwriter in American musical theater.
See Iliad and John La Touche (lyricist)
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.
John Ogilby
John Ogilby (also Ogelby, Oglivie; 17 November 16004 September 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer.
Jonathan Shay
Jonathan Shay (born 1941) is an American doctor and clinical psychiatrist.
Judgement of Paris
The Judgement of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War, and in later versions to the foundation of Rome.
See Iliad and Judgement of Paris
Judith Thurman
Judith Thurman (born 1946) is an American writer, biographer, and critic.
Julian Jaynes
Julian Jaynes (February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997) was an American psychologist at Yale and Princeton for nearly 25 years, best known for his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
Kae Tempest
Kae Tempest (formerly Kate Tempest) is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright.
King Priam
King Priam is an opera by Michael Tippett, to his own libretto.
Kleos
Kleos is the Greek word often translated to "renown", or "glory".
See Iliad and Kleos
Late antiquity
Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century up to the 7th or 8th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin depending on location.
Late Bronze Age collapse
The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC associated with environmental change, mass migration, and the destruction of cities.
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Lesya Ukrainka
Lesya Ukrainka (translit,; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Лариса Петрівна Косач; –) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays.
List of editiones principes in Greek
In classical scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which could be circulated only after being copied by hand.
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Locus Award
The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California.
Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller (born July 24, 1978) is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018).
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series.
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Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.
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Martin Litchfield West
Martin Litchfield West, (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015) was a British philologist and classical scholar.
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Mary Lefkowitz
Mary R. Lefkowitz (born April 30, 1935) is an American scholar of Classics.
Mask of Agamemnon
The Mask of Agamemnon is a gold funerary mask discovered at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in southern Greece.
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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic.
Medieval literature
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country).
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Men in Aida
Men in Aida is a homophonic translation of Book One of Homer's Iliad into a farcical bathhouse scenario, perhaps alluding to the homoerotic aspects of ancient Greek culture.
Menelaus
In Greek mythology, Menelaus (Μενέλαος, 'wrath of the people') was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.
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Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle Persian
Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.
Military tactics
Military tactics encompasses the art of organizing and employing fighting forces on or near the battlefield.
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Milman Parry
Milman Parry (June 23, 1902 – December 3, 1935) was an American Classicist whose theories on the origin of Homer's works have revolutionized Homeric studies to such a fundamental degree that he has been described as the "Darwin of Homeric studies".
Mindset
A mindset is an established set of attitudes of a person or group concerning culture, values, philosophy, frame of mind, outlook, and disposition.
Moirai
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Moiraioften known in English as the Fateswere the personifications of destiny.
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Moral injury
A moral injury is an injury to an individual's moral conscience and values resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression on the part of themselves or others.
Muses
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses (Moûsai, Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts.
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Mycenae
Mycenae (𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂; Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.
Mycenaean Greece
Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.
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Myrmidons
In Greek mythology, the Myrmidons (or Myrmidones; Μυρμῐδόνες, Murmidónes, singular: Μυρμῐδών, Murmidṓn) were an ancient Thessalian Greek tribe.
Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.
See Iliad and Narrative poetry
Nestor (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerenia (Νέστωρ Γερήνιος, Nestōr Gerēnios) was a legendary king of Pylos.
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New Statesman
The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.
Nicholas Richardson
Nicholas James Richardson is a British Classical scholar and formerly Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford, from 2004 until 2007.
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Nostos
Nostos is a theme used in Ancient Greek literature, which includes an epic hero returning home, often by sea.
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Odysseus
In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus (Odyseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
Odyssey
The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Iliad and Odyssey are 8th-century BC books, 8th-century BC poems, ancient Greek religion, poems adapted into films, public domain books and Trojan War literature.
Oliver Taplin
Oliver Taplin, FBA (born 2 August 1943) is a retired British academic and classicist.
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) in October 1816.
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On Translating Homer
On Translating Homer, published in January 1861, was a printed version of the series of public lectures given by Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford between 3 November and 18 December 1860.
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Oracle
An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities.
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Oral tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
Oral-formulaic composition
Oral-formulaic composition is a theory that originated in the scholarly study of epic poetry and developed in the second quarter of the twentieth century.
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Oresteia
The Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides). Iliad and Oresteia are Trojan War literature.
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
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Oxford World's Classics
Oxford World's Classics is an imprint of Oxford University Press.
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Panathenaic Games
The Panathenaic Games (Παναθήναια) were held every four years in Athens in Ancient Greece from 566 BC to the 3rd century AD.
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Pandarus
Pandarus or Pandar (Ancient Greek: Πάνδαρος Pándaros) is a Trojan aristocrat who appears in stories about the Trojan War.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 20
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 20 (P. Oxy. 20) consists of twelve fragments of the second book of the Iliad (Β, 730–828), written in Greek.
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 21
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 21 (P. Oxy. 21) is a fragment of the second book of the Iliad (Β, 745-764), written in Greek.
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Paris (mythology)
Paris (Πάρις), also known as Alexander (Ἀλέξανδρος, Aléxandros), is a mythological figure in the story of the Trojan War.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart
Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart (17 August 1888 – 30 December 1917) was a British scholar and poet of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the Royal Naval Division during the First World War.
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Patroclus
In Greek mythology, Patroclus (generally pronounced; glory of the father) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and an important character in Homer's Iliad.
Pedagogy
Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners.
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics is an imprint of Penguin Books under which classic works of literature are published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean among other languages.
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Perseus Digital Library
The Perseus Digital Library, formerly known as the Perseus Project, is a free-access digital library founded by Gregory Crane in 1987 and hosted by the Department of Classical Studies of Tufts University.
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Peter Green (historian)
Peter Morris Green (born 22 December 1924), Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series.
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Phalanx
The phalanx (phalanxes or phalanges) was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar polearms tightly packed together.
Phereclus
In Greek mythology, Phereclus or Phereclos, son of Tecton, was the shipbuilder who constructed the boat that Paris used to kidnap Helen.
Phoenix (son of Amyntor)
In Greek mythology, Phoenix (Ancient Greek: Φοῖνιξ Phoinix, gen. Φοίνικος Phoinikos) was the son of king Amyntor.
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Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
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Polydamas (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Polydamas (Ancient Greek: Πολυδάμας, gen. Πολυδάμαντος, Polydámas, Polydámantos) was a lieutenant and friend of Hector during the Trojan War.
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Poseidon
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.
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Postmodern literature
Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues.
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Priam
In Greek mythology, Priam (Πρίαμος) was the legendary and last king of Troy during the Trojan War.
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Pride
Pride is defined by Merriam-Webster as "reasonable self-esteem" or "confidence and satisfaction in oneself".
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.
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Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye or Recueil des Histoires de Troye (1464) is a translation by William Caxton of a French courtly romance written by Raoul Lefèvre, chaplain to Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. Iliad and Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye are Trojan War literature.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Rhapsode
A rhapsode (ῥαψῳδός, "rhapsōidos") or, in modern usage, rhapsodist, refers to a classical Greek professional performer of epic poetry in the fifth and fourth centuries BC (and perhaps earlier).
Richard Janko
Richard Charles Murray Janko (born May 30, 1955) is an Anglo-American classical scholar and the Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.
Richmond Lattimore
Richmond Alexander Lattimore (May 6, 1906 – February 26, 1984) was an American poet and classicist known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey.
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.
Robert Fagles
Robert Fagles (September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008) was an American translator, poet, and academic.
Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, literary critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students".
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Rout
A rout is a panicked, disorderly and undisciplined retreat of troops from a battlefield, following a collapse in a given unit's command authority, unit cohesion and combat morale (esprit de corps).
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Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet.
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh).
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Samuel Butler (poet)
Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist.
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Sarpedon
Sarpedon (Σαρπηδών) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology.
Sarpedon (Trojan War hero)
In Greek mythology, Sarpedon (or; Σαρπηδών) was a son of Zeus, who fought on the side of Troy in the Trojan War.
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Scamander
Scamander, also Skamandros (Σκάμανδρος) or Xanthos (Ξάνθος), was a river god in Greek mythology.
Serbian language
Serbian (српски / srpski) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs.
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Shield of Achilles
The shield of Achilles is the shield that Achilles uses in his fight with Hector, famously described in a passage in Book 18, lines 478–608 of Homer's Iliad.
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Siege
A siege (lit) is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared assault.
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Simone Weil
Simone Adolphine Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist.
Sortie
A sortie (from the French word meaning ''exit'' or from Latin root surgere meaning to "rise up") is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an aircraft, ship, or troops, from a strongpoint.
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Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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Sparta
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.
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St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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Stanley Lombardo
Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo (alias Hae Kwang; born June 19, 1943) is an American Classicist, and former professor of Classics at the University of Kansas.
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Statius
Publius Papinius Statius (Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος) was a Latin poet of the 1st century CE.
Suleyman al-Boustani
Suleyman al-Boustani (Arabic: سليمان البـسـتاني / ALA-LC: Sulaymān al-Bustānī, Süleyman el-Büstani; 1856–1925) was a statesman, teacher, poet and historian born in Bkheshtin, Lebanon.
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Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
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Syriac language
The Syriac language (Leššānā Suryāyā), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (Urhāyā), the Mesopotamian language (Nahrāyā) and Aramaic (Aramāyā), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is the academic term used to refer to the dialect's literary usage and standardization, distinguishing it from other Aramaic dialects also known as 'Syriac' or 'Syrian'.
T. S. Eliot Prize
The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation.
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Terence Hawkins
Terence Hawkins (born 1956) is an American author of numerous short stories and two novels, American Neolithic, published by C&R Press, and The Rage of Achilles, a recounting of The Iliad in the form of a novel.
Terminus post quem
A terminus post quem ('limit after which', sometimes abbreviated TPQ) and terminus ante quem ('limit before which', abbreviated TAQ) specify the known limits of dating for events or items.
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The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Fall of Troy (film)
The Fall of Troy (La caduta di Troia) is a 1911 Italian silent short film directed by Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto.
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The Firebrand (Bradley novel)
The Firebrand is a 1987 historical fantasy novel by American author Marion Zimmer Bradley.
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The Golden Apple (musical)
The Golden Apple is a musical adaptation of parts of the Iliad and Odyssey with music by Jerome Moross and lyrics by John Treville Latouche.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Iliad or the Poem of Force
"The Iliad, or The Poem of Force" (L'Iliade ou le poème de la force) is a 24-page essay written in 1939 by Simone Weil.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
The Singer of Tales
The Singer of Tales is a book by Albert Lord that formulates oral tradition as a theory of literary composition and its applications to Homeric and medieval epic.
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The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles is a 2011 novel by American writer Madeline Miller.
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Theodore Alois Buckley
Theodore Alois William Buckley (1825–1856) was a translator of Homer and other classical works.
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Theophilus of Edessa
Theophilus of Edessa (Greek: Θεόφιλος, 695–785 CE), also known as Theophilus ibn Tuma and Thawafil, was a medieval astrologer and scholar in Mesopotamia.
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Thersites
In Greek mythology, Thersites (Ancient Greek: Θερσίτης) was a soldier of the Greek army during the Trojan War.
Thetis
Thetis (Θέτις) is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles.
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Thracians
The Thracians (translit; Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe in ancient history.
Thucydides
Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης||; BC) was an Athenian historian and general.
Tom Holland (author)
Thomas Holland (born 5 January 1968) is an English author and popular historian who has published best-selling books on topics including classical and medieval history, and the origins of Islam.
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Trójumanna saga
Trójumanna saga (The Saga of the Men of Troy) is a saga in Old Norse which tells the story of the matter of Troy. Iliad and Trójumanna saga are Trojan War literature.
Troilus
Troilus (or; Troïlos; Troilus) is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War.
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1602. Iliad and Troilus and Cressida are Trojan War literature.
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Trojan Horse
In Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war.
Trojan War
The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC.
Troy
Troy (translit; Trōia; 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭|translit.
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Troy (film)
Troy is a 2004 epic historical war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by David Benioff.
Twelve Olympians
relief (1st century BCendash1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff), Artemis (bow and quiver) and Apollo (lyre) from the Walters Art Museum.Walters Art Museum, http://art.thewalters.org/detail/38764 accession number 23.40. Iliad and twelve Olympians are ancient Greek religion.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Michigan Press
The University of Michigan Press is a new university press (NUP) that is a part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library.
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Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks (February 16, 1886 – May 2, 1963) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian.
Venetus A
Venetus A is the more common name for the 10th century AD manuscript codex catalogued in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice as Codex Marcianus Graecus 454, now 822.
Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
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Walter J. Ong
Walter Jackson Ong (November 30, 1912 – August 12, 2003) was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian, and philosopher.
War Music (poem)
War Music is the working title of British poet Christopher Logue's long-term project to create a modernist poem based on Homer's Iliad, begun in 1959.
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War poetry
War poetry is poetry on the topic of war.
Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Western canon
The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved the status of classics.
Western literature
Western literature, also known as European literature, is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, and is shaped by the periods in which they were conceived, with each period containing prominent western authors, poets, and pieces of literature.
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William Cowper
William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.
William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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William Theed the elder
William Theed (1764–1817), called William Theed the elder, was an English sculptor and painter, the father of William Theed the younger, who was also a sculptor.
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Women's Prize for Fiction
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.
Zeus
Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.
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See also
8th-century BC books
- Book of Amos
- Book of Hosea
- Book of Isaiah
- Book of Joel
- Book of Judges
- Book of Micah
- Book of Proverbs
- Books of Samuel
- Epigoni (epic)
- Iliad
- Nostoi
- Odyssey
- Oedipodea
- Psalms
- Thebaid (Greek poem)
- Theban Cycle
- Theogony
- Works and Days
8th-century BC poems
Poems adapted into films
- Aniara
- Annabel Lee
- Anyone lived in a pretty how town
- Beowulf
- Casey at the Bat
- Don Juan (poem)
- Enoch Arden
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Evangeline
- Huliya (poem)
- I Am Joaquin
- Iliad
- János vitéz
- Jerusalem Delivered
- Kumārasambhava
- Lalla Rookh
- Martín Fierro
- Meghadūta
- Odyssey
- Phra Aphai Mani
- Shahnameh
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)
- The Courtship of Miles Standish
- The Face upon the Barroom Floor
- The Hangman (poem)
- The Highwayman (poem)
- The Light of Asia
- The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
- The Moods of Ginger Mick
- The Old Swimmin' Hole (poem)
- The Raven
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- The Set-Up (poem)
- The Shooting of Dan McGrew
- The Sick Stockrider (poem)
- The Song of Hiawatha
- The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
- The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
- The Village Blacksmith
- The Wallace (poem)
- The Wild Party (poem)
- The Wreck of the Hesperus
- Typhoid Sufferers (poem)
Public domain books
- 1st-millennium BC books
- All Hallows' Eve (novel)
- Altazor
- Analects
- Barddas
- Burhi Aair Sadhu
- City at World's End
- Diamond Sutra
- Fire the Bastards!
- From Dictatorship to Democracy
- Iliad
- Kural
- Le Disciple
- LibriVox
- Little Fuzzy
- Little Wars
- Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu
- Mein Kampf
- Michigan Digitization Project
- Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions
- Motion Pictures in Education
- My Father's Dragon
- New Hampshire (poetry collection)
- Odyssey
- Plague Ship
- Principia Discordia
- Radetzky March (novel)
- Runivers
- St. Paul in Britain
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain (1996 book)
- The City of Beautiful Nonsense (novel)
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Indigo Book
- The New Ethics
- The Other Side of the Mountain (Jalali and Grau book)
- The Riddle of the Sands
- The Servile State
- The Universal Kinship
- Victory (novel)
- World English Bible
References
Also known as Homer's Iliad, Ilead, Iliás, Illiad, Illiad and Odyssey, Illyad, Ilyad, Song of Ilion, Song of Ilium, The Iliad, The Iliad of Homer, The Illiad, TheIliad, Themes in the Iliad, Timê, , Ιλιάδα, Ιλιάς.
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