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IliadGreek epic poem, product of an oral tradition; it was possibly written down by 700 BC and is attributed to Homer. The title is derived from Ilion, the Greek name for Troy. Its subject is the wrath of the Greek hero Achilles at the loss of his concubine Briseis, and at the death of his friend Patroclus, during the Greek siege of Troy. The poems ends with the death of the Trojan hero Hector at the hands of Achilles. |
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| He was so fond of these stories that while still a little boy he made a play from the Iliad which was acted by the boys of one of his schools. His Margites bears the same relation to Comedy that the Iliad and Odyssey do to Tragedy. There is neither Iliad nor Odyssey to be found in the libraries of the Chinese; indeed, a favourite feature of their verse is the "stop short", a poem containing only four lines, concerning which another critic has explained that only the words stop, while the sense goes on. |
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