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Iliad|ˈɪlɪæd|
[ad. L. Īlias, Īliad-, a. Gr. Ἰλιάς (1) sc. γῆ, the Troad, Troy, (2) sc. γυνή, a Trojan woman, (3) sc. ποίησις, the Iliad; f. Ἴλιος, Ἴλιον Ilion, Ilium, Troy, the scene of the Trojan war. Cf. F. Iliade (16th c. in Littré).]
1. One of the two great epic poems of ancient Greece (the other being the Odyssey) traditionally attributed to Homer, describing the ten years' siege of Ilium or Troy by the Greeks.
Sometimes used, with ordinal numeral, for one book of the Iliad: hence formerly in pl. for the whole poem.
1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 16 Homers Iliades in a nutte shell; a Kings picture in a pennie. 1715–20Pope Iliad Pref., The descriptions of his battles, which take up no less than half the Iliad. 1828Whately Rhet. in Encycl. Metrop. 250/1 No one would believe it possible for such a work as the Iliad, e.g. to be produced by a fortuitous shaking together of the letters of the alphabet. 1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 163 In the Sixth Iliad.
attrib.1791Cowper Let. 10 Mar., I have two French prints..both on Iliad subjects.
2. transf. and fig.
a. An epic poem like that of Homer, or a poem describing martial exploits.
1619Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent i. (1676) 2 The Iliad of our age. 1674W. J. (title) English Iliads; or, a Sea-Fight reviewed in a Poem. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. iii, Certain Iliads, and the like, have, in three-thousand years, attained quite new significance.
b. A long series of disasters or the like (Gr. ἰλιάς κακῶν, Demosthenes); a long story or account.
1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 359 Her stay brought forth..an Iliad of miseries. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1632) 1212 [They] heaped an Iliade of curses vpon the heads of the Executioners. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 307 Fevers, Gout, Falling-sickness, and an Iliad of Distempers. 1796Burke Regic. Peace ii. Wks. VIII. 233 It opens another Iliad of woes to Europe. 1865Times 29 Apr., An opportunity of learning a whole Iliad of finance in a comparative nutshell.
Hence Iliˈadic a., of or pertaining to the Iliad; ˈIliadist, (a) a singer of the Iliad, a rhapsodist; (b) a writer of ‘Iliads’ (see 2 a); ˈIliadize v., to relate in the manner of the Iliad.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 31 M. Vlisses..of whome it is Illiadizd that your very nose dropt sugar candie. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 289 The Iliadists in Scarlet Robes are drest..To picture what they sing of..Wars, and Blood of Greeks and Trojans slain. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. i. i. (1872) I. 16 All real Poets, to this hour, are Psalmists and Iliadists after their sort. 1892A. M. Clerke Fam. Stud. Homer i. 29 The experience of the Iliadic bard. 1897S. Butler Authoress of Odyssey Pref. 6 The leading Iliadic and Odyssean scholars. |