The Iliad by Homer | Classic Literature Paperback Book

Western literature begins here.

Attributed to Homer and shaped through centuries of oral tradition, The Iliad stands at the foundation of the Western literary canon. It establishes not only the epic as a literary form, but many of the questions that literature would return to repeatedly: how honour is earned and lost, how anger shapes fate, and how memory outlives the individual.

The Trojan War provides the setting, but it is not the subject. The poem is concerned with conduct under pressure — with pride, obligation, loyalty, and the fragile bonds between people caught inside systems larger than themselves. Violence is present throughout, but it is never abstracted; its consequences are immediate and enduring.

Read now, The Iliad remains demanding. Its pace is deliberate, its moral landscape unsimplified, and its voice unyielding. Much of what follows in Western literature — epic, tragedy, and even the idea of heroism itself — traces back to the tensions first articulated here.

Format: Paperback
Condition: New
Author: Homer
Number of pages: 528 

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