10 examples of ilias in sentences

Homer, in the first books of his "Ilias," permits us to glance into the banqueting-hall of Olympus.

" Into that old Homeric world we enter through the portals of the "Ilias" and "Odusseia," and see the peaks of Olympus shining afar off in white splendor like silvery clouds, not looking for or expecting either a loftier or a purer heaven.

Homer, both in the "Ilias" and "Odusseia," gives his readers frequent glimpses into the halls of Olympus; for messengers are continually flashing to and fro, like meteors, between the throne of Zeus and the earth.

They are scattered up and down the "Ilias" and "Odusseia" in the shape of disjecta membra.

Tully observes of Achilles, that had not Homer written, his valour had been without praise: Nisi Ilias illa extitisset, idem tumulus qui corpus ejus contexerat, nomen ejus obruisset.

If it shall please God to give me longer life, and moderate health, my intentions are to translate the whole Ilias; provided still that I meet with those encouragements from the public which may enable me to proceed in my undertaking with some cheerfulness.

Mr Hobbs, in the preface to his own bald translation of the Ilias (studying poetry as he did mathematics, when it was too late), Mr Hobbs, I say, begins the praise of Homer where he should have ended it.

I prefer in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite, which is of the Epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias, or the Æneis.

De Ilias Venezis, traducteurs: Toula & Pierre Amandry.

De Ilias Venezis, traducteurs: Toula & Pierre Amandry.

10 examples of  ilias  in sentences