Iliad

The Iliad is an epic and a war poem full of news of battles. You can almost hear the sound of battle as you recite it, and you can almost overlook from it a noisy, seething field, intense excitement, and seething with blood... If you are a man of war, you will be pleased by the plans drawn up and the tricks devised, and you will be awed by these army legions taking their places and then It moves like a wave, then bounces off, piece after piece. It is in a state of flight and flight, like a single man, or like a solid building... and the Iliad from this point of view. It also depicts for you the life of soldiers in the barracks in the most brilliant and wonderful depiction, just as it depicts for you the lives of sailors, athletes, herders, and mountain men.