The Iliad
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The Iliad
| Author | Homer |
|---|---|
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A few weeks in the tenth year of the siege of Troy, organised around one man’s anger: Achilles withdraws over an insult, the Greeks lose without him, his friend dies wearing his armour, and he returns to kill Hector and then gives the body back to Hector’s father. With the Odyssey, the oldest surviving work of Western literature — and the cost side of everything the political philosophy after it takes up. |
The Iliad
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — entry 4 in the History of Western Civilization section of Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, after Plato and before Aristotle: a primary-source reading of the West rather than a shelf of histories about it. No edition or year given.
- Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, Texas — on its ninth-grade reading list, posted by the Classic Learning Test in September 2026. Full sequence: Founders Classical Academy Reading List.
About this edition
Composed in Greek hexameter in the oral tradition around the 8th century BC. Every printed edition is somebody’s translation, which is why it is cited by book and line.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the bibliography this came from.
- The Odyssey — its companion, entry 3 on the same list.
- Classics · Literature — the canon it opens.
- War — the subject it is usually read for, and the one it is most reticent about glorifying.
- Founders Classical Academy Reading List — also assigned in the ninth-grade year at Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, a classical school in Texas (Classic Learning Test, 22 September 2026).
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.