The Iliad
Summary & Analysis
Pick one book: in each one, you get a summary of what happens, followed by the passages with analysis.
- Book IThe Plague and the Wrath
- Book IIThe Dream and the Catalog of the Ships
- Book IIIThe Duel of Paris and Menelaus
- Book IVThe Truce Broken
- Book VThe Aristeia of Diomedes
- Book VIHector and Andromache
- Book VIIThe Duel of Hector and Ajax
- Book VIIIThe Battle Interrupted
- Book IXThe Embassy to Achilles
- Book XThe Doloneia
- Book XIThe Aristeia of Agamemnon
- Book XIIThe Assault on the Wall
- Book XIIIThe Battle at the Ships
- Book XIVZeus's Deception
- Book XVThe Trojans at the Ships
- Book XVIThe Death of Patroclus
- Book XVIIThe Struggle for Patroclus's Body
- Book XVIIIAchilles' Shield
- Book XIXThe End of Wrath
- Book XXThe Battle of the Gods
- Book XXIAchilles and the River
- Book XXIIThe Death of Hector
- Book XXIIIThe Funeral Games
- Book XXIVThe Ransom of Hector