Sample Sentences forThe Iliad (auto-selected)
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The Iliad is thought to have been first written down in the 8th century BCE.The Iliad = Homer's Trojan War epic
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On it rested the prizes—Finny's icebox, hidden all these months in the dormitory basement, a Webster's Collegiate Dictionary with all the most stimulating words marked, a set of York barbells, the Iliad with the English translation of each sentence written above it, Brinker's file of Betty Grable photographs, a lock of hair cut under duress from the head of Hazel Brewster, the professional town belle, a handwoven rope ladder with the proviso that it should be awarded to someone occupying a room on the third floor or higher, a forged draft registration card, and $4.13 from the Headmaster's Discretionary Benevolent Fund.† (source)
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Or something from the Popul Voh, or the Iliad.† (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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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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Read The Iliad.† (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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With Cosette's garter, Homer would construct the Iliad.† (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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The plot of The Iliad is not particularly divine or global.† (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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* 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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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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No wonder that Alexander carried the Iliad with him on his expeditions in a precious casket.† (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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