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One the initial and most significant epic poems of the Lady, The Iliad says the storyline of fifty critical days and nights towards the end of the Trojan warfare. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of win; but destiny will have the last word. As the heroes fight before the surfaces of Troy the gods also have drawn up battle lines, and it is their disagreements as much as the heroes' efforts which will determine the conflict. Regardless of the poem's antiquity, the real, human characteristics of the protagonists and their dilemmas make The Iliad immediately accessible, especially in the hands of a master story-teller such as Anton Lesser. The Iliad was composed in the eighth century B.C., probably as an oral composition incorporating a variety of experiences from a wealthy poetic custom of works now lost to us. The identification of Homer has been fiercely but inconclusively debated since historical times. The Greeks thought he was a single person, and various places competed for the honour of naming him a citizen. However, nothing reliable is known about him, although some traditions insist that he was blind. The poem was formerly created for recitation on important situations by a professional bard, at least before sixth century B.C. when, matching to Greek traditions, the Athenian tyrant Peisistratus got the poem on paper and codified in an application like the work we know today.

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