How many pages does the The Iliad have?
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704 pages in the Penguin edition.
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It is about the Trojan war, and it is called 'Iliad' because it means 'the story of Troy'. It was written by Homer, a Greek, and takes place in about 1255BC. Queen Helen of Sparta, married to King Menelaus, is the most beautiful women in the world. She is (there is controversy about this part) stolen from Sparta by Paris, a prince of Troy. Some think that she went willingly, some don't. But the Iliad doesn't cover that part. It leaps right into the war, because of course Menelaus wants her back! He asks his brother, King Agamemnon of Mycenae, to help him. The war last 10 years, and the Greeks win, thanks to Odysseus, a Greek soldier. The sequel is The Odyssey, also by Homer, and it is the story of Odysseus, who sails for 20 years, trying to get home, and his adventures. His wife, Penelope, refuses to believe he is dead.\nA good 'kid story' of the Iliad is Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney (not the complete story) and a good kid story of the Odyssey is Waiting for Odysseus by Clemence McLaren.
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The primary sources for the myth of the war of Troy are Homer's Illiad and Odyssey.  They are epic poems and you can find very accessible translations.  Every other thing written about the trojan war are based on Homer's epics, so if I were you I'd go right to the source.  Every thing about the Trojan war, the reason it was started and the outcome is presented in Homer's poems.  The Illiad will be the most important source.  It's about how and why the war started and many of the primary battles at troy.  The Oddessey is how the war was won and Oddysseus's adventures home.  Only the beginning of the Oddessey deals with the end of the Trojan war, so you won't need the rest for your present question.  Ive never seen the movie, so I'm not sure how acurate it is.
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It is impossible to know how it differred from reality, because there is no objective evidence of the war at Troy, other than an obvious event at Troy VII where the city was razed to the ground. How it differs from the books it was (loosely) based on, the Iliad and the Odyssey, it would take far too much time and space to list all of them here. For one, Menelaus does not die and takes Helen back to Sparta with him. You should read both of the books to find out the rest.
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Super question because there are several types of epic poems.\n\nI never knew this until I checked, so thanks for asking it!\n \nEpic comes from the Greek word epikos meaning a word, song or speech.\n\n1. You have your "classical epic", a long narrative poem usually about a hero, like the Iliad or the Odyssey\n\n2. Then there's the "literary epic", for example Milton's "Paradise Lost" which is so epic (loooong) you can only read small bits without getting a headache in your eye.\n\n3. The "folk epic", like "Beowulf" is all about the traditions of a nation. Lots of swords and stabbings and bizzare spellings.\n\n4. Any long important (and long) poem like Dante's "Inferno" is an epic just because it is so long. Long is the word here.
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a sonnet is a poem with no more than 14 lines if i'm not mistaken
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It will probably take you three pages on a standard letter sized page.  Good luck with your essay :)!!!!
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The number of pages in the book are all determined by the publisher .  Print size,   margins    page size.     Each different edition of a book can be quite different.  And it is a play.
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I have one you can have its on the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Its seven pages and it was for a upper level Medeval history class i got a B on it so of u want it let me know!
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any line in a poem usually has about 8 syllables, but i don't think there is a specific poem outline that has 8 syllables in each line. \n\nthe only thing i can think of is that the 4th line of a cinquain poem has 8 syllables...
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Given the length and depth of the Odyssey I would recommend going to your local library and borrowing a copy- and if its a description you are after you could look for a version aimed at students as these would most likely give extra detail, insight and analysis.
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It is older than history itself. In the Iliad Homer speaks of awards given to brave soldiers as well as rewards for winning athletic competitions. Since it was written in the 600s BC but told of events in the 1200s BC, it is clear that the practice is prehistorical.
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I don't know the exact page, but I know it's in the back when he is like reflecting on his journey. See if there's like an epilogue or prologue or something... Or go to the part where he lands on the beach or something and read from there.
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it depends on the title!!! \nsometimes there are poems with 800 lines !!! in diffrent languages or in english doesnt matter...its all depends on the meaning of the poem
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This site should help you:  http://waynesweb.ualr.edu/GreekRoman_files/Oedipus%20Plot%20Structure.htm\n\n \n The Structure of Oedipus the King\n(According to Aristotle, the prototypical tragedy)\n\nThe structure of the play: a prologue and five episodes, each introduced by a choral ode. \nThis one too:  http://web.whittier.edu/people/WebPages/PersonalWebPages/furmanadams/G&R.HTM
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Yes, it's incredibly difficult to read & I didn't enjoy it. Admittedly, I used Cliff Notes to help me.\n\nBook summaries\nBook 1: Ten years into the war, Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel over a slave girl, Achilles withdraws from the war in anger \nBook 2: Odysseus motivates the Greeks to keep fighting; Catalogue of Ships, Catalogue of Trojans and Allies \nBook 3: Paris challenges Menelaus to single combat \nBook 4: The truce is broken and battle begins \nBook 5: Diomedes has an aristea and wounds Aphrodite and Ares \nBook 6: Glaucus and Diomedes greet during a truce, Hector returns to Troy \nBook 7: Hector battles Ajax \nBook 8: The gods withdraw from the battle \nBook 9: Agamemnon retreats: his overtures to Achilles are spurned \nBook 10: Diomedes and Odysseus go on a spy mission \nBook 11: Paris wounds Diomedes, and Achilles sends Patroclus on a mission \nBook 12: The Greeks retreat to their camp and are besieged by the Trojans \nBook 13: Poseidon motivates the Greeks \nBook 14: Hera helps Poseidon assist the Greeks \nBook 15: Zeus stops Poseidon from interfering \nBook 16: Patroclus borrows Achilles' armour, enters battle, kills Sarpedon and then is killed by Hector \nBook 17: The armies fight over the body and armour of Patroclus \nBook 18: Achilles learns of the death of Patroclus and receives a new suit of armour \nBook 19: Achilles reconciles with Agamemnon and enters battle \nBook 20: The gods join the battle; Achilles tries to kill Aeneas \nBook 21: Achilles fights with the river Scamander and encounters Hector in front of the Trojan gates \nBook 22: Achilles kills Hector and drags his body back to the Greek camp \nBook 23: Funeral games for Patroclus \nBook 24: Achilles lets Priam have Hector's body back, and he is burned on a pyre \n[edit]\nAfter the Iliad: the end of the war and the returns home\nAlthough certain events subsequent to the funeral of Hector are foreshadowed in the Iliad, and there is a general sense that the Trojans are doomed, a detailed account of the fall of Troy is not set out by Homer. The following account comes from later Greek and Roman poetry and drama.\n\nAchilles fights and kills the Amazon queen Penthesilea and the Aethiopean king Memnon. Very soon he is killed on the battlefield by Paris with a poisoned arrow to his vulnerable heel. (See Achilles' Heel). After his death, Ajax and Odysseus feud over who should keep his armour. They submit their disagreement to an impromptu court and Odysseus is awarded the armour. Ajax subsequently goes mad and slaughters his livestock, believing they are the Greek commanders. He then kills himself in shame.\n\nThe Amazons come to join the battle. Philoctetes, a crippled Greek who had been abandoned by the others along the journey, was recruited by the god Heracles because it was prophesied the war could not be won without his bow.\n\nOdysseus devises a plan to take the city. He has his men build a large, hollow wooden horse, and then he and twenty others hide inside. The Greek ships withdraw out of sight of Troy, apparently admitting defeat, and leave behind the horse, purportedly as an offering to Poseidon for good winds on the return trip. The Trojans take this inside the great walls of Troy, and then feast and celebrate their victory and the war's end. At night, Odysseus and the soldiers creep out of the horse and open the gates to the other Greeks who have sailed back under cover of night. The city is sacked, and in some accounts burned for seven years.\n\nPriam is killed. According to one tradition, Hector's wife Andromache throws their son Astyanax and herself from the ramparts to save them from slavery. According to another, Astyanax was killed by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, to ensure that Hector's son could not seek vengeance for his father's death against Achilles' son. Andromache became Neoptolemus' concubine, later to marry Helenus, Hector's brother. A Roman tradition held that Aeneas escaped wi
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