The Iliad

Contents

• Book I.
  The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles -- Achilles withdraws from the war, and sends his mother Thetis to ask Jove to help the Trojans -- Scene between Jove and Juno on Olympus.
• Book II.
  Jove sends a lying dream to Agamemnon, who thereon calls the chiefs in assembly, and proposes to sound the mind of his army -- In the end they march to fight -- Catalogue of the Achaean and Trojan forces.
• Book III.
  Alexandria, also called Paris, challenges Menelaus -- Helen and Priam view the Achaeans from the wall -- The covenant -- Paris and Menelaus fight, and Paris is worsted -- Venus carries him off to save him -- Scene between him and Helen.
• Book IV.
  A quarrel in Olympus -- Minerva goes down and persuades Fandarus to violate the oaths by wounding Menelaus with an arrow -- Agamemnon makes a speech and sends for Machaon -- He then goes about among his captains and upbraids Ulysses and Sthenelus, who each of them retort fiercely -- Diomed checks Sthenelus, and the two hosts then engage, with great slaughter on either side.
• Book V.
  The exploits of Diomed, who, though wounded by Pandarus, continues fighting -- He kills Pandarus and wounds AEneas -- Venus rescues AEneas, but being wounded by Diomed, commits him to the care of Apollo and goes to Olympus, where she is tended by her mother Dione -- Mars encourages the Trojans, and AEneas returns to the fight cured of his wound -- Minerva and Juno help the Achaeans, and by the advice of the former Diomed wounds Mars, who returns to Olympus to get cured.
• Book VI.
  Glaucus and Diomed -- The story of Bellerophon -- Hector and Andromache.
• Book VII.
  Hector and Ajax fight -- Hector is getting worsted when night comes on and parts them -- They exchange presents -- The burial of the dead, and the building of a wall round their ships by the Achaeans -- The Achaeans buy their wine of Agamemnon and Menelaus.
• Book VIII.
  Jove forbids the gods to interfere further -- There is an even fight till midday, but then Jove inclines the scales of victory in favor of the Trojans, who eventually chase the Achaeans within their wall -- Juno and Minerva set out to help the Trojans: Jove sends Iris to turn them back, but later on he promises Juno that she shall have her way in the end -- Hector's triumph is stayed by nightfall -- The Trojans bivouac on the plain.
• Book IX.
  The Embassy to Achilles.
• Book X.
  Ulysses and Diomed go out as spies, and meet Dolon, who gives them information: they then kill him, and profiting by what he had told them, kill Rhesus king of the Thracians and take his horses.
• Book XI.
  In the forenoon the fight is equal, but Agamemnon turns the fortune of the day towards the Achaeans until he gets wounded and leaves the field -- Hector then drives everything before him till he is wounded by Diomed -- Paris wounds Diomed -- Ulysses, Nestor, and Idomeneus perform prodigies of valor -- Machaon is wounded -- Nestor drives him off in his chariot -- Achilles sees the pair driving towards the camp and sends Patroclus to ask who it is that is wounded -- This is the beginning of evil for Patroclus -- Nestor makes a long speech.
• Book XII.
  The Trojans and their allies break the wall, led on by Hector.
• Book XIII.
  Neptune helps the Achaeans -- The feats of Idomeneus -- Hector at the ships.
• Book XIV.
  Agamemnon proposes that the Achaeans should sail home, and is rebuked by Ulysses -- Juno beguiles Jupiter -- Hector is wounded.
• Book XV.
  Jove awakes, tells Apollo to heal Hector, and the Trojans again become victorious.
• Book XVI.
  Fire being now thrown on the ship of Protesilaus, Patroclus fights in the armor of Achilles -- He drives the Trojans back, but is in the end killed by Euphorbus and Hector.
• Book XVII.
  The light around the body of Patroclus.
• Book XVIII.
  The grief of Achilles over Patroclus -- The visit of Thetis to Vulcan and the armor that he made for Achilles.
• Book XIX.
  Achilles is reconciled with Agamemnon, puts on the armor which Vulcan had made him, and goes out to fight.
• Book XX.
  The gods hold a council and determine to watch the fight, from the hill Callicolone, and the barrow of Hercules -- A fight between Achilles and AEneas is interrupted by Neptune, who saves AEneas -- Achilles kills many Trojans.
• Book XXI.
  The fight between Achilles and the river Scamander -- The gods fight among themselves -- Achilles drives the Trojans within their gates.
• Book XXII.
  The death of Hector.
• Book XXIII.
  The funeral of Patroclus, and the funeral games.
• Book XXIV.
  Priam ransoms the body of Hector -- Hector's funeral.