Homeri Ilias (1856)

Homeri Ilias est poema epici Graecorum antea scriptum, quod de bello Troiano narrat. In hoc libro, Achivi et Troiani in bello conflixi sunt, et multa deorum intervenerunt. Poema in viginti quinque libris diviso est, quorum primus incipit ab ira Achillis et finit in sepulchro Hectoris. Homeri Ilias est opus magnum et celebratum, quod adhuc usque ad diem hunc legatur et studiatur. Haec editio exarata est anno MDCCCLVI et continet annotationes et interpretationes criticas.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Homer is the name ascribed by the Ancient Greeks to the semi-legendary author of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the central works of Greek literature. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. The modern scholarly consensus is that these traditions do not have any historical value.The importance of Homer to the ancient Greeks is described in Plato's Republic, where he is referred to as the protos didaskalos, "first teacher", of tragedy, the hegemon paideias, "leader of learning" and the one who ten Hellada pepaideuken, "has taught Greece". Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds in Egypt.