The Iliad, Belletristik von Homer, Peter Jones, D. C. H. Rieu, Coralie Bickford-Smith, E. V. Rieu

Centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determine 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.