The Iliadby Homer

Rendered into English Blank Verse by Edward Earl of Derby

Contents

• Preface.
• Note to the Fifth Edition.
• The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon.
• The Trial of the Army and Catalogue of the Forces.
• The Duel of Menelaus and Paris.
• The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle.
• The Acts of Diomed.
• The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache.
• The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax.
• The Second Battle, and the Distress of the Greeks.
• The Embassy to Achilles.
• The Night Adventure of Diomed and Ulysses.
• The Third Battle, and the Acts of Agamemnon.
• The Battle at the Grecian Wall.
• The Fourth Battle Continued, in which Neptune Assists the Greeks. The Acts of Idomeneus.
• Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus.
• The Fifth Battle, at the Ships; and the Acts of Ajax.
• The Sixth Battle; the Acts and Death of Patroclus.
• The Seventh Battle, for the Body of Patroclus.—The Acts of Menelaus.
• The Grief of Achilles, and New Armour Made Him by Vulcan.
• The Reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon.
• The Battle of the Gods, and the Acts of Achilles.
• The Battle in the River Scamander.
• The Death of Hector.
• Funeral Games in Honour of Patroclus.
• The Redemption of the Body of Hector.