TY - BOOK AU - Homer, AU - Rieu,E.V. AU - Jones,P.V. AU - Rieu,D.C.H. TI - The Iliad SN - 9780141394657 AV - PA4025.A2 R53 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Penguin Classics KW - Achilles KW - Epic poetry, Greek KW - Translations into English KW - Trojan War KW - Poetry KW - Fictional Work N1 - Originally published: 1950; Revised translation originally published: 2003; A prose reworking of the Iliad; 1330L; Lexile; Accelerated Reader AR; UG; 11.3; 25; 12787 N2 - Centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the fate of Troy. This book presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background ER -