The Iliad
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The Iliad has these big, overstuffed couches and chairs with blown springs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
MulletChamp.com states that the mullet has a long history: “Homer even described a haircut that sounds eerily familiar in The Iliad: ‘their forelocks cropped, hair grown long at the backs.’”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
Experts first found the artwork, which depicts scenes from Trojan war epic The Iliad, in a dig in 2021.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2022
Homer’s epic poems – The Iliad and The Odyssey – were written down in this period after being recited in oral form by traveling singers for centuries.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
So I exchanged it for walls of marble, which echoed only with the sound of dripping water, of the flushing of my toilet, or of my voice softly reading The Iliad aloud.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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