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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:" alt="">The Greeks considered the lliad their
greatest literary achievement, and no epic poem in any language has ever rivalled
it.</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
" alt="">The Iliad is the culmination of a
long-standing oral tradition. The oral technique enabled a master bard like Homer
to develop what may historically have been an event of minor importance into a
fully fledged epic. S0, out of a Single episode in the legendary Trojan War - Achilles^
withdrawal from the fighting and his return to kill the Trojan hero, Hector -
Homer generated the twenty-four books of the lliad.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:" alt="">Note: The front cover and the pages are
intact. The book has yellow pages</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:" alt=""></span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" alt="">About
the Author</span></strong></p>

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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:" alt="">Homer </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:" alt="">was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia
Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the
first Greek writer whose work survives.</span> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:" alt="">He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral
tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic
poems. Both works attributed to Homer – the Iliad and the Odyssey – are over
ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory
but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:" alt="">E. V. Rieu </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:" alt="">was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek,
and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964. His son, D. C. H. Rieu has
revised his work.</span></p>



