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1. everything-theatre.co.uk › 2022 › 11Review: The Iliad, British Museum - Everything Theatre

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   Nov 14, 2022 · The Iliad is the first of two significant works by the ancient Greek poet Homer. It tells of the siege of Troy. You know, the one with indescribably beautiful Helen and the 1,000 ships. Even if you’ve not read a word of it, its character list of heroes and gods will feel familiar.

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3. www.bbc.co.uk › culture › articleThe Iliad: How modern readers get this epic wrong - BBC Culture

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   Oct 5, 2023 · One of two great epic poems by Homer to survive from ancient Greece, The Iliad unfolds across two months in the final year of the Trojan War. The Greeks – led by Agamemnon, and with Achilles as...

4. antigonejournal.com › 2022 › 03Homer and the Power of Story-telling - Antigone

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   Mar 1, 2022 · Despite its focus on characters as doers of deeds, there are pivotal moments in the Iliad where the poet zooms in on characters who have no real deeds to do and turn instead to story-telling. The first seven lines of Homer’s Iliad in a 15th-century manuscript (Vatican Apostolic Library, Vaticanus Palatinus Graecus 246, f. 1r)

5. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWhat Homer’s Iliad can tell us about worship and war - BBC

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   Apr 27, 2018 · For the second in our Stories that shaped the world series, Caroline Alexander explores how Homer’s Iliad helped redefine the way we worship – and what the epic poem of ancient Greece can ...

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   Aristos sings the story of doomed heroes Achilles and Patroclus through a heartbreaking pop/rock score. Far-flung artists gather in the virtual sphere to create the album of Aristos, a probingly lyrical new Iliad musical by Muse Lee and Aaron Reed. Through a timeless story of love and….

7. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsThe Iliad in Theatre: Ancient and Modern Modes of Epic ...

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   Oct 21, 2014 · Livathinos's Iliad restored the original understanding of ‘epic theatre’, which differs from what is usually meant by this term in the light of Brechtian theory and practice with its didactic and distancing emphases.

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   Who wrote the Iliad?

   • One of two great epic poems by Homer to survive from ancient Greece, The Iliad unfolds across two months in the final year of the Trojan War. The Greeks – led by Agamemnon, and with Achilles as their greatest warrior – are still trying to capture the mighty city of Troy. The Trojans – led by Hector – have resisted for 10 years.

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   Is the Iliad a good story?

   • The Iliad has the reputation of being an exclusively masculine epic, weak on female characters, but – to choose only one contending example – Homer’s nuanced characterisation of Helen as a woman driven by reluctant, remorseful passion is as hauntingly credible as any Anna Karenina.

   What Homer’s Iliad can tell us about worship and war - BBC

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   What is the Iliad myth?

   • At the heart of the Iliad is the myth of the Trojan War. This was one of the most familiar myths of the ancient Greek world. It described a great struggle between the kings and heroes of Greece (often known collectively as the “Achaeans,” especially in Homer) and the powerful city of Troy or Ilium, located on the northwestern tip of modern Turkey.

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   How did the Iliad change the way people worshipped?

   • Most significantly, the Iliad changed the way people worshipped. According to the 5th-Century historian Herodotus, it was Homer, with the poet Hesiod, who “described the gods for the Greeks”, and who also gave them human characters – the characters that shape the Olympian gods we recognise today.

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   How does the Iliad start in Book 1?

   • The Iliad begins in Book 1 by outlining the origins of a fateful quarrel within the Achaean camp between Achilles, the greatest hero of his time, and Agamemnon, the army’s commander-in-chief. Agamemnon refuses to release his slave-girl Chriseis to her father, the Trojan priest Chryses, who asks Apollo to punish the Achaeans with a terrible plague.

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   Why is the Iliad interested in enmity and reconciliation?

   • As outlined in the opening to the poem, the Iliad is interested in enmity and reconciliation: it explores the ingredients which make men stand apart and the ingredients which help bind us together. Achilles’ anger, and his self-obsessed hunger for status and recompense, is the catalyst for enmity between him and his own side.

   Homer and the Power of Story-telling – Antigone

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9. mythopedia.com › topics › iliadIliad – Mythopedia

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   Mar 1, 2023 · The Iliad, said to have been composed by Homer, is an epic poem that was probably originally put into writing during the middle of the eighth century BCE. Set during the famous Trojan War, the poem describes the events following a quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon.