Iliad

Men have been punching each other in the head since the beginning of time, and you will find references to boxing in The Iliad.

So Eric left the field, and wandered home, like Calchas in the Iliad, “sorrowful by the side of the sounding sea.”

A long passage in the Iliad gives an account of her toilet when arraying herself for a special occasion.

In the second room, human passion, power, and tyranny were illustrated in scenes of Greek heroic life from the Iliad.

Here, then, is another difficulty in the path of the theory that the Iliad is the work of four centuries.

Yet poets of the eighth to seventh centuries were, by the theory, busily adding to and altering the ancient lays of the Iliad.