Iliad+texts

=Iliad Texts=

[|Iliad in poetry]

[|Iliad in prose]

Robert Fagles

Other Iliad texts with line numbers, in pdf form

Possible Paper topics Where does the first night's performance end for //the Iliad//? //The Odyssey// begins with the Telemachia, the first four books that follow Telemachus and his problems in Ithaca awaiting the return of Odysseus. Robert Fitzgerald asserts in his introduction to his translation of that epic that the Telemachia makes up the first night's performance of the epic, the entire telling of which stretches over 6 nights. Where does the first night's performance end for the Iliad? Remember, the epic was divided into books not by Homer but by editors hundreds of years later and coincidentally the number of books in the epic matches the number of letters in the Greek alphabet. So to decide where the first night's performance ends one must look beyond the arbitrary endings of the books and at the sequence of events across books. At what moment in the Iliad does one come to the end of a performance and at what moment does one get a beginning of a performance for the second night of story telling?

HH articles
Essay on Fate: Sam Belsky 2018

with book 2



with book 2 Themis in the Iliad

with book 9 Ate in the Iliad

with book 23 "Who Shall Readily Obey?" Dean Hammer

"Introduction: The Iliad" pp. 3-22

"Introduction: Trojan War, The Trojans, The Gods" sections: pp. 23-45

"Introduction: Achilles" section pp. 45-67

with Book 18

with book 24 "The Theme of the Suppliant-Exile in the Iliad" by Robin Schlunk