Iliad

Examples

• For ordinary draught purposes, as in the quotation from the _Iliad_ we have just made, oxen were employed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We must remember that in the time of Buddha it is doubtful if even the Iliad had been committed to writing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The original recited version of the _Iliad_ was older than that of the _Odyssey_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If so, the authors of the _Iliad_ hid the motives of their characters very skilfully. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Here, for example, is the concluding passage of the _Iliad_, describing very exactly the making of a prehistoric barrow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One of the most interesting and informing of these prehistoric compositions of the Aryans survives in the Greek _Iliad_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These early Greeks of the _Iliad_ are sturdy fighters, but without discipline--their battles are a confusion of single combats. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The description in the Iliad of the gods shaking their sides at the clumsiness of Hephaestus will not be admitted by us. Plato. The Republic.
• The _Iliad_ makes it clear that destruction came upon Troy because the Trojans stole Greek women. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The heroic social system of the _Iliad_ took possession of the land, and adapted itself to the new conditions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He said, in Rome, that the Pope was a noble-looking old man, but he never did think much of his Iliad. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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