Ἰλιάς
The Iliad
Homer Ὅμηρος · c. 8th century BCE
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A few weeks in the tenth year of a war, told around one man’s anger. Homer gives every death a name and a home, and lets enemies grieve in the same tent. Its similes keep opening onto fields, weather and ordinary work, so the slaughter is always seen against the life it ends. Few poems since have looked at violence so steadily.