The Iliad

Cultural  

1. An epic by Homer that recounts the story of the Trojan War (see also Trojan War).

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Example Sentences

Her “ideal day” is to go to the Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood, “visit” the cat who sits on the register and prowl the aisles until she finds three books to bring home.

From Los Angeles Times

The instant she finished a novel, she would extol its virtues and demand we go to the Iliad or the Last Bookstore to get the author’s next offering.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Drout argues that the sheer size of Tolkien’s imagined world makes his novels qualitatively different from those of other fantasy authors and more like “Beowulf,” the “Iliad” and other epics of medieval or ancient times.

From The Wall Street Journal

Spread out on a table, which is covered with a velvet cloth, the evidence includes several frayed books, including “The Iliad”; a violin and a flute; a palm-leaf fan; daisies in a metal ewer; and more.

From The Wall Street Journal

The ancient Greek kingdom of Pylos is nowhere near as familiar in today’s popular consciousness as city-states with names like Corinth or Thebes, but it did get a shout-out from Homer in both the Iliad and the Odyssey.

From Los Angeles Times