the Iliad by Homer is the epic poem of 15,693 lines of dactylic hexameter, composed in twenty-four scrolls (books) narrating the military and personal events occurred in the concluding year of the Trojan War (the Greek siege of the city of Ilion). hence, the title Iliad (pertaining to the city of Ilios). the story concerns the wrathful withdrawal of Achilles (the Greeks’ premiere warrior) from the war, on being dishonored by King Agamemnon.
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