![]() ContentsĪ quarrel about the two girls mentioned at the end of the Cypria marks the beginning of Homer's great epic. The Iliad was represented on works of art, found in Bactria, Egypt, or Germania Inferior. Appian of Alexandria tells that when Scipio Aemilianus destroyed Carthage, he quoted a line from the Iliad ("the day shall come in which our sacred Troy shall perish", 6.448-449 Punic War, 132). Poets like Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil wrote imitations. Reportedly, Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad under his pillow ( text), and if we find it hard to believe that story, it remains a testimony to the importance of the text that the ancients found it credible. ![]() The story, an episode from the Trojan War, was well-known to any Greek or Roman, and had a status almost comparable to a sacred book. The Iliad is the sixth epic of the Epic Cycle it is attributed to the legendary bard Homer. Iliad: Homer's famous epic about the wrath of Achilles, the main poem of the Epic Cycle, and the beginning of Greek literature. ![]()
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