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- Instance of
- literary work, oral poetry
- Inception
- 8th century BCE
- Part of
- Homeric epics
- Has parts
- Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV, Book V, Book VI, Book VII, Book VIII, Book IX, Book X, Book XI, Book XII
- Part of the series
- Epic Cycle
- Follows
- Cypria
- Followed by
- Aethiopis, Posthomerica
- Author
- Homer
- Derivative works
- Troy, Helen of Troy, The Odyssey, The Fury of Achilles, Helen of Troy, Helena
- Genre
- epic poem
- Main subject
- wrath of Achilles
- Depicts
- wrath of Achilles
- characters
- Hector, Andromache, Eris, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Dione, Leto, Scamander, Athena, Poseidon
- country of origin
- Ancient Greece
- depicted by
- Hall of Iliad
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, Pauly–Wissowa
- entry in abbreviations table
- Hom. Il.
- first line
- μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
- form of creative work
- long poem
- has edition or translation
- Q137797006, Les Unzième, et Douzième Livres de l’Iliade d'Homère, Les Dix Premiers Livres de l’Iliade d’Homère, L'Iliade, The Iliad of Homer, The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Iliade (Monti), Homérova Ilias, Iliade, Iliad, The Iliad of Homer, The Iliad
- language of work or name
- Homeric Greek, Ancient Greek
- last line
- Ὣς οἵ γ᾽ ἀμφίεπον τάφον Ἕκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο.
- narrative motif
- deity flies in bird plumage, deities intervene in battle, transformation: deity in guise of mortal, deity takes form of particular person to visit mortals, deity as helper
- plot expanded in
- Odyssey, Aeneid, Posthomerica
- title
- Ἰλιάς
- topic's main category
- Category:Iliad
- used metre
- dactylic hexameter
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