Iliad

Homer's epic of the wrath of Achilles in the tenth year at Troy, from his quarrel with Agamemnon to the funeral of Hector, in twenty-four books; it does not narrate Troy's fall. Its digressions are primary witnesses for many other myths, and Herodotus, who dated Homer four hundred years before himself, argued from its lines about which poems were Homer's. Read in Murray's Loeb translation.