Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Persons, Places, Regions, and Relationships
Pronunciation, Principal Characters
Preface
I:
Commentary
Introduction
I. A Personally Taken Iliad
II. Homeric Language: As Rich as English Might Aspire to Become
III. Dactylic Hexameter: The Meter of Homer and Classical Epic (in Brief)
IV. Homeric Artificiality in Translation: Rightness of Result
1. Alliteration: Roots and Reason
2. Making a Translation: Freedom in Constraint
3. Inflection, Particles, Dialect Forms
4. Rhetorical Artificiality
5. Alliteration: Artificiality's Case in Point
II:
Homer's Iliad in a Classical Translation
(Each book preceded by a summary)
Prologue: Mythological Background
Book 1 | Achilles and Agamemnon Quarrel, Achilles Withdraws from Battle, Thetis Implores Zeus to Avenge Achilles by Favoring the Trojans
Book 2 | Zeus Sends Agamemnon a False Dream, Agamemnon Tests the Army, the Rowdy Thersites, the Catalogue of Ships
Book 3 | The Parties Declare a Truce, the View from the Wall, the Single Combat Between Menelaus and Paris
Book 4 | The Trojans Breach the Truce, Agamemnon Marshals the Forces, the First Day of Battle
Book 5 | The Battlefield Excellence (or "Aristeia") of Diomedes, His Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
Book 6 | Diomedes and the Lycian Glaucus Exchange Armor in a Chivalrous Gesture, the Parting of Hector and Andromache
Book 7 | The Single Combat between Hector and Ajax, the Dead are Buried, the Greeks Build a Wall to Protect Their Encampments and Ships
Book 8 | The Trojans Advance to the Wall and Encamp, the Greeks Beleaguered, the Second Day of Battle
Book 9 | The Embassy to Achilles: Agamemnon Seeks to Reconcile Achilles with Gifts
Book 10 | The Night Raid, Diomedes and Odysseus Capture and Kill the Trojan Spy Dolon
Book 11 | The Savagery and Wounding of Agamemnon, Patroclus Seeks to Identify a Wounded Greek and (at Nestor's Urging) Will Seek to Impersonate Achilles, the Third Day of Battle
Book 12 | Hector Storms the Barricade and Enters the Greek Camp, the Fourth Day of Battle
Book 13 | Battle is Waged for the Greek Ships, Poseidon Aids the Greeks, Mayhem Reigns, Idomeneus Deters the Trojan Advance
Book 14 | The Deception of Zeus: Aphrodite and the God Sleep Assist Hera in Seducing Zeus Who Then Slumbers as Hera Aids the Greeks
Book 15 | Zeus Awakens and Chastises Hera, the Greeks are Repulsed to Their Ships, the Doings of Ajax, the Fifth Day of Battle
Book 16 | Deeds and Deaths of Sarpedon, Cebriones, and Patroclus, the Sixth Day of Battle
Book 17 | Fight for the Body of Patroclus, Deeds of Ajax and Menelaus, the Seventh Day of Battle
Book 18 | Achilles' Anguish for Patroclus, Thetis and the Nereids Mourn, Hephaestus Forges New Armor for Achilles
Book 19 | Achilles and Agamemnon Reconciled, Briseis Restored
Book 20 | The Gods Prepare for Battle, Achilles Returns to the Plain
Book 21 | Achilles Battles the River Scamander, Hephaestus Checks the River's Advance
Book 22 | The Death of Hector: Hector Dragged by the Heels Behind Achilles' Chariot Around the Walls of Troy
Book 23 | The Immolation of Patroclus, the Games in His Honor
Book 24 | The Ransoming of Hector's Body, the Immolation of Hector
