Reading the Epic, Book One: Iliad, Homer

Welcome to “Read the Epic”. I'm going to be reading through several Western World Epics and posting my reading responses as I go along. I'm in a class at Boise State University called, “The Epic in Western World Literature” so I will be moving through several of these epics in the course of a semester. That means: lots of updates! You can read along if you like, and it should be a fun journey.

The first book is, “The Iliad”.

We will be using this translation as soon as it arrives in the mail. Until then, I'm using this one. You can find a free PDF version (translator may vary) here at Manybooks, or here at Google books.