The Iliadin a sentence
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The Iliad is thought to have been first written down in the 8th century BCE.
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We'll sacrifice one of the prizes," said Phineas, seizing the Iliad.† (source)
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Read The Iliad.† (source)
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The plot of The Iliad is not particularly divine or global.† (source)
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Historians have their method, just like anyone else, and they're jealous of it, but the Iliad shames any history of Greece, and Dante stands supreme above the world's collected medievalists.† (source)
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We spent the first ten minutes discussing the Iliad, and whether or not the text actually states that Achilles had been dipped in the River Styx.† (source)
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Or she'll observe, just after I've told her a story from the Iliad: 'You know, when you come to think of it, Agamemnon and that lot were nothing but a bunch of ruffians from the Gorbals, only with fancy names!'† (source)
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The Iliad is the story of the siege of Troy, which will fall in the dust, and of its defenders who will be killed in battle.† (source)
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Amazons occur in Greek literature in the Iliad of Homer, for example, in 600 BC.† (source)
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Or something from the Popul Voh, or the Iliad.† (source)
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* The principal text of modern Hindu devotional religiosity: an ethical dialogue of eighteen chapters, appearing in Book VI of the Mahabharata, which is the Indian counterpart of the Iliad.† (source)
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As for the book, it was Simon's copy of the Iliad, and I had been reading how the fair Briseis was dragged around from tent to tent and Achilles racked up his spear and hung away his mail.† (source)
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He built up a constant exchange of books among his companions, borrowing and lending in an intricate web, from Max Isaacs, from "Nosey" Schmidt, the butcher's son, who had all the rich adventures of the Rover Boys; he ransacked Gant's shelves at home, reading translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey at the same time as Diamond Dick, Buffalo Bill, and the Algers, and for the same reason; then, as the first years waned and the erotic gropings became more intelligible, he turned passionately to all romantic legendry, looking for women in whom blood ran hotly, whose breath was honey, and whose soft touch a spurting train of fire.† (source)
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Achilles appears in the Iliad, by Homer.† (source)
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It was the Iliad that made Greece my paradise.† (source)
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With Cosette's garter, Homer would construct the Iliad.† (source)
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