The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope

Translated by Alexander Pope

With Notes by Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley M.A. F.S.A.

Illustrated by Flaxman's Designs

1899

Contents

• Summary
• Introduction.
• Pope's Preface to the Iliad of Homer
• 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.
• Concluding Note.
• Footnotes