The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Contributors: Bernard Knox (Introduction); Robert Fagles (Translator)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: November 1, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780140275360
First sentence: "Iliad" is a word that means "a poem about Ilium" (i.e., Troy), and Homer's great epic poem has been known as "The Iliad" ever since the Greek historian Herodotus so referred to it in the fifth century B.C.