The Iliad. / Homer.

The rage ---
The warriors and the ships ---
The duel ---
The oaths violated ---
Diomedes' prowess ---
Hector and andromache ---
The truce ---
The battle broken off ---
The refusal ---
The raid ---
Agamemnon's exploits ---
The struggle for the wall ---
The battle at the ships ---
Zeus fooled ---
The greeks penned in ---
Patroclus' doom ---
Menelaus' feats ---
Achilles' shield ---
The rage renounced ---
War among the Gods ---
The battle at the river ---
Hector falls ---
The funeral games ---
Hector ransomed.

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death. Interwoven with this tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, of the domestic world inside Troy's besieged city of Ilium, and of the conflicts between the Gods on Olympus as they argue over the fate of mortals.