Homer's Iliad Told to Children and the People

The stories and the names, however many thousands of years they have been told, seem to have remained forever: Achilles, Hector, Agamemnon, Helen, Ajax, Menelaus...

The Iliad, by Homer, which describes events during the tenth year of the Trojan War, is one of the two great epic poems of Ancient Greece — the other being The Odyssey, by the same author, already published in this collection.

The reader has in their hands not just another little piece of culture, because it is a book, because it is an enrichment, but one might say a central, primordial piece. This is, in fact, a founding work of Western literature. But, however timeless it may be, The Iliad is always new in the presentation of values, in the philosophical stimulation of dilemmas, in the entertainment of the tales. Ideal for the imagination.

With this perfect adaptation by João de Barros, we understand in a simple way the profound message of Homer's heroic and epic lyricism, so that everyone, young and old, can delight in this jewel of universal literature.