[ClearCase_guy]

Not to be picky, but the Iliad starts very close to the end of the Trojan War. It does not describe the abduction of Helen. It does not describe a 10-year siege. The Iliad ends before the fall of Troy.

The Iliad is about the anger of Achilles.

[Sans-Culotte]

Not to be picky, but the Iliad starts very close to the end of the Trojan War. It does not describe the abduction of Helen. It does not describe a 10-year siege. The Iliad ends before the fall of Troy.

Yes, but while not actually depicted, all of that is mentioned in the story. I think it is in the scene where Menelaus and Paris fight in single combat and Aphrodite rescues the weenie Paris before he can be killed.

Also, Agamemnon was an ass for dissing Achilles the way he did.

[skeeter]

And the writer neatly avoids mentioning who shot the arrow that found his heel.

I always identified with the Trojans, in spite of Paris.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

True. But THE AENEID by Virgil fills in many blanks from the Trojan side. Aren’t we glad Augustus did not fulfill the last wish of Virgil!

There are other Greek Poets who have also filled in the Iliad version of the Trojan War.