A-Z: General definitions
- I Am That I Am
- Iambic
- Iambic hexameter
- Iambic Pentameter
- Iambic Tetrameter
- Iambs
- Icaria
- Icarian Sea
- Icarus
- Icon
- Iconic
- Iconoclast
- Iconoclastic
- Iconography
- Ida, Mount
- Ideal Form
- Idealism
- Ideology
- Idiolect
- Idiom
- Idiomatic
- Idol
- Idolatry
- Idyll
- If thy right eye offend thee
- Ignatian
- Ignatius
- ignis-fatus
- Iliad
- Illusion
- Image
- Imagery
- Imagination
- Imaginative truth
- Imagist
- Immaculate Conception
- Immanent
- Immanuel Kant
- Immortal
- Immortality
- Imperative
- Imperative verb
- Improvisation theatre
- Impute
- In extremis
- Incantation
- Incantatory
- Incarnate
A-Z: General definitions: Iliad
Definition
An epic poem written by Homer, set during the siege of Troy. Probably written around the eighth century BC it refers to events that were supposed to have occurred in 1200BC when King Agamemnon fought Paris to reclaim his brother's wife, Helen of Troy.
A major poem or fiction depicting events of significance in the history of a civilisation.
(9th or 8th century BCE). Greek poet to whom the highly-influential, epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, were attributed.
King of Mycenae, son of Atreus, brother of Menelaus and husband of Clytemnestra.
Son of King Priam of Troy.
Daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famed for her beauty; wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; she was abducted by Paris and taken back to Troy, which led to the Greeks' siege of Troy.
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