The Iliad
Homer · -750 · Poetry
Full text · 24 chaptersNarrated in your voice
Public domain · added by Library
What it's about
Not the Trojan war — nine days of it, three thousand years ago, and one man's rage. Pope's verse translation is the one that shaped English poetry, and the poem's real subject is what the fighting costs the people doing it.
Reading plan
Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.
Read together
Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.
Who it's for
- Anyone starting on the classics - Readers who want the war poem everything descends from - Anyone who knows the horse and not the quarrel
