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    The Iliad (/ˈɪliəd/; Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, romanized: Iliás, Attic Greek: [iː.li.ás]; "[a poem] about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek...
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    The iLiad was an electronic handheld device, or e-Reader, which could be used for document reading and editing. Like the Barnes and Noble nook, Sony Reader...
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    Iliad S.A. is a French telecommunications company. It is based in Paris and its operations comprise fixed and mobile telephony services, prepaid phone...
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  • Look up Iliad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Iliad is an epic poem attributed to Homer. Iliad may also refer to: iLiad, an e-book reading device...
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     8th century BC) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek...
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    Iliad Italia S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company, wholly-owned subsidiary of the French group Iliad SA In December 2022, with 9.56 million...
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    Trojan War (section Iliad)
    through many works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's Iliad. The core of the Iliad (Books II – XXIII) describes a period of four days and two nights...
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  • The Little Iliad (Greek: Ἰλιὰς μικρά, Ilias mikra; Latin: parva Illias) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that...
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    the greatest of all the Greek warriors. A central character in Homer's Iliad, he was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia and famous...
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    may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The historicity of the Iliad has been a topic of scholarly debate for centuries. While researchers of...
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    was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and an important character in Homer's Iliad. Born in Opus, Patroclus was the son of the Argonaut Menoetius. When he...
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    The Ambrosian Iliad or Ilias Picta (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 205 Inf.) is a 5th-century illuminated manuscript on vellum, which depicts the...
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    Zeus (category Deities in the Iliad)
    At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. According to the Theogony, Zeus' first...
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    is a key element of the stories associated with the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Homer describes a deep and meaningful relationship between Achilles and...
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    portrayed as a towering figure and a warrior of great courage in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War, being...
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  • Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English since the 16th and 17th...
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  • This is a list of principal characters in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles (Ἀχιλλεύς), the leader of the Myrmidons (Μυρμιδόνες), son of Peleus and...
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    Olympic Iliad, also known as Pasta Tube, is a 1984 steel sculpture by Alexander Liberman, located in the lawn surrounding the Space Needle at Seattle...
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    tried to persuade Achilles to return. Phoenix appears as a character in the Iliad, where Homer has him tell his story. He is also mentioned several times...
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    already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association...
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  • Troy (film) (category Films based on the Iliad)
    (the sack of Troy) is not taken from the Iliad, but rather from Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica, as the Iliad concludes with Hector's death and funeral...
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    instead to Echidna, or again even Ceto. Homer described the Chimera in the Iliad, saying that "she was of divine stock not of men, in the fore part a lion...
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    Ogyges (Ὠγύγης). "Gyes", rather than Gyges, is found in some texts. Homer's Iliad gives Briareus a second name, saying that Briareus is the name the gods...
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    Hera (category Deities in the Iliad)
    Scibner's Sons. 1882. p. 176 (footnote nr. ii). Homer, Iliad 19.95ff. Iliad, ii. 781-783) The Iliad by Homer - Project Gutenberg Bachofen, Mutterrecht 1861...
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    Hephaestus (category Deities in the Iliad)
    the daughter of Zeus (Iliad 3.374, 20.105; Odyssey 8.308, 320) and Dione (Iliad 5.370–71), see Gantz, pp. 99–100. Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation...
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    Ares (category Deities in the Iliad)
    4324/9781315812755 Iliad 5.830–834, 5.590–605, 21.410–414. Iliad 5.711–769, 5.780–834, 5.855–864. Iliad 15.110–128, 20.20–29, 21.391–408. Iliad 4.436f, and 13...
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    shareholder of the French Internet service provider and mobile operator Iliad trading under the Free brand (France's second-largest ISP, and third mobile...
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    Agamemnon (section The Iliad)
    Pelops, son of Tantalus. According to the common story (as told in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer), Agamemnon and his younger brother Menelaus were the...
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    (laos) 'people') was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta. According to the Iliad, the Trojan war began as a result of Menelaus’s wife, Helen, fleeing to...
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    numerous Greek legends and works of Ancient Greek literature such as the Iliad. In myth, he is prince of Troy, son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, and...
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