id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7553 Iliad - Wikipedia .html text/html 12723 1387 76 Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Mycenean Greek states (Achaeans), it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. However, as these events are prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, when it reaches an end the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. The Iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer. Hector – Prince of Troy, son of King Priam, and the foremost Trojan warrior. μῆνις, mēnis, "wrath," "rage," "fury"), establishes the Iliad's principal theme: The "Wrath of Achilles".[32] His personal rage and wounded soldier's pride propel the story: the Achaeans' faltering in battle, the slayings of Patroclus and Hector, and the fall of Troy. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7553.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7553.txt