"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 didnever can, never will, hold a great place under the sun.... Whatenchanted us in our childhood, and is captivating a millionof young fancies now, has, at the same blessed time of life,enchanted vast hosts of men and women who have done theirlong 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