"Athene shot down from Olympus like a falling star" (Patten Wilson)

STORIES
FROM THE ILIAD

RETOLD BY

H. L. HAVELL B.A.

AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM HERODOTUS" "STORIES FROM GREEK TRAGEDY"
"STORIES FROM THE ÆNEID" "STORIES FROM THE ODYSSEY"
"STORIES FROM DON QUIXOTE" "STORIES FROM
THUCYDIDES" "STORIES FROM XENOPHON"

"A nation without fancy, without some romance, never did never can, never will, hold a great place under the sun.... What enchanted us in our childhood, and is captivating a million of young fancies now, has, at the same blessed time of life, enchanted vast hosts of men and women who have done their long day's work and laid their grey heads down to rest."

CHARLES DICKENS

GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD.
LONDON BOMBAY SYDNEY

First published February 1908
by GEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY
39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2

Reprinted: August 1908; February 1909; May 1910; July 1913;
July 1916; July 1917; August 1919; April 1922; April 1924;
March 1926; April 1928; November 1929

Printed in Great Britain by The Riverside Press Limited
Edinburgh

CONTENTS

[Introduction]—

I. The Story
II. The Divine Characters
III. The Human Characters
IV. The Similes

[The Quarrel]

[The Dream: The Muster of Greeks]

[Greeks and Trojans Face to Face: The Duel]

[The Breaking of the Truce]

[The Exploits of Diomede]

[The Battle continued: Hector and Andromache]

[Second Battle: Repulse of the Greeks]

[The Embassy to Achilles]