How you explore The Iliad on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 40 characters, 19 places, 19 objects and 8 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 52 passages of The Iliad sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Homer wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Homer instead.
The Iliad feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of The Iliad
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- The Wrath of Achilles
- Duels and a Broken Truce
- Hector and Andromache
- The Tide Turns
- The Death of Patroclus
- The Return of Achilles
- The Death of Hector
- Priam and the Ransom
The author's pen in The Iliad
The passages themselves, Homer's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Achilles' Wrathch. 1
- Atrides Refuses the Priestch. 1
- Apollo’s Plague Arrowsch. 1
- The Oath of Withdrawalch. 1
- Minerva Stays Achillesch. 1
- Achilles Laments to the Seach. 1
- The Goddess Hears Her Sonch. 1
- Jove’s Irrevocable Nodch. 1
- The Deluding Dreamch. 2
- Ulysses Rebukes Thersitesch. 2
- Hector Hears the Challengech. 3
- Hector Upbraids Parisch. 3
- Helen Before Priamch. 3
- Atrides Curses Heavench. 3
- Venus Saves The Princech. 3
- The Arrow Takes Wingch. 4
- Pallas Fires Tydidesch. 5
- Hector at the Scaean Gatech. 6
- Theano’s Vain Prayerch. 6
- Hector Rebukes Parisch. 6
The characters of The Iliad
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Achillesmajor
- Hectormajor
- Patroclusmajor
- Agamemnonmajor
- Priammajor
- Andromachemajor
- Thetismajor
- Helenmajor
- Parismajor
- Briseissupporting
- Chrysessupporting
- Chryseissupporting
- Apollosupporting
- Athenasupporting
- Zeussupporting
- Herasupporting
The locations in The Iliad
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Greek campmilitary camp
- Achilles’ tentwarrior tent
- Greek shipsbeached fleet
- Battlefield before Troybattlefield
- Troycity
- Walls of Troy / Scaean Gatescity walls and gate
- Priam’s palaceroyal palace
- Olympusdivine dwelling
- Sea / Thetis’ realmdivine sea realm
- Funeral shore / Greek funeral groundfuneral ground
- Road from Troy to Achilles’ tentnight road
- Temple of Athena in Troytemple
- Hector’s househousehold
- Paris’ chamberprivate chamber
The core concepts in The Iliad
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Rage begins in injury but demands a limit
- Honour can bind a community or break it
- War turns public glory into private loss
- Bodies are owed memory and ritual
- The gods intensify human responsibility
- Supplication tests whether power can recognize vulnerability
- Speech can wound, fail, and heal
- Substitution cannot carry another life
- Mortality gives heroic life its terrible brightness
- Life persists inside the image of war
The objects of note in The Iliad
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Agamemnon’s sceptre
- Chryses’ ransom
- Achilles’ old armour
- Achilles’ new armour
- Shield of Achilles
- Hector’s helmet
- Patroclus’ body
- Hector’s body
- Priam’s ransom gifts
- Funeral pyre
- Achilles’ lyre
- Pandarus’ bow
- Ajax’s shield
- Diomedes and Glaucus’ exchanged armour
The offer
Explore The Iliad. And 127 more.
Literah maps the classics into worlds you can walk through — the cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words, passage by passage. One payment, no subscription, yours to keep.
$75$150one time · 128 books