The Iliad narrates the tragic and bloody outcome of the Trojan War. It is perhaps the most important epic poem in Western tradition, and the oldest poem in Western literature, which is considered one of the great works of our tradition.
his Greek epic, which, like the Odyssey, has been attributed to Homer, is a hymn to the glorious and tragic outcome of the Trojan War. In ancient times it was considered that this poem was based on true history and that the characters who appeared in it were a model of behavior and heroism. The events it narrates take place over the course of the last fifty-one days of a conflict that lasted ten long years, and develop around the figure of the Hellenic hero Achilles, the fleet-footed one, son of a mortal and a goddess.
Throughout the more than fifteen thousand verses of the work, Homer evokes concepts as central to ancient Greek culture as return, glory, respect, anger and destiny.