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/ˈɪliəd/
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‘ancient greek’ –>
Ἰλιάς
Ilias
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*pronounced [iː.li.ás] in ‘classical attic’*
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(sometimes referred to as…)
song of ilion
song of ilium
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(the iliad is an ‘ancient greek epic poem’ in ‘dactylic hexameter’, traditionally attributed to ‘homer’)
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*set during the ‘trojan war’*
(aka “the 10-year siege of the city of ‘troy’ (aka ‘ilium’) by a coalition of ‘greek states’”)
(it tells of the ‘battles’ + ‘events’ during the weeks of a quarrel between ‘king agamemnon’ and the warrior ‘achilles’)
(although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the iliad mentions (or alludes to) many of the ‘greek legends’ about the ‘siege’)
(the earlier events, such as the ‘gathering of warriors for the siege’, the ’cause of the war’, and ‘related concerns’ tend to appear near the beginning)
(then the ‘epic narrative’ takes up events prophesied for the future, such as ‘achilles’ looming death’ and the ‘sack of troy’, although the narrative ends before these events take place)
(however, as these events are ‘prefigured’ and ‘alluded to’ more and more vividly, when it reaches an end the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the ‘trojan war’)
(the iliad is paired with something of a ‘sequel’ (the odyssey), also attributed to ‘homer’)
(along with the odyssey, the iliad is among the ‘oldest extant works of western literature’, and its written version is usually dated to around the ‘8th century BC’)
(‘recent statistical modelling’ (based on ‘language evolution’) gives a date of ‘760 BC’ – ‘710 BC’)
(in the modern ‘vulgate’ (the ‘standard accepted version’), the iliad contains 15,693 lines)
(it is written in ‘homeric greek’)
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(which was a ‘literary amalgam’ of ‘ionic greek’ + other ‘dialects’)
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥