Trojan War literature

The Iliad (; , ; ) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version. The Iliad is often regarded as the first substantial piece of European literature and is a central part of the Epic Cycle.

The Odyssey (; ) is one of two major epics of ancient Greek literature attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and remains popular with modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books. It follows the heroic king of Ithaca, Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, and his homecoming journey after the ten-year long Trojan War. His journey from Troy to Ithaca lasts an additional ten years, during which time he encounters many perils and all of his crewmates are killed. In Odysseus's long absence, he is presumed dead, leaving his

thumb|300px|Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). [[Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy]] right|thumb|300px|Map of Aeneas' fictional journey

play by William Shakespeare

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

The Oresteia () is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

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Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

thumb|Front matter of Boswell's copy of the 1732 edition of the Heroides, edited by Peter Burmann.Note the title Heroides sive Epistolae,The Heroides or the Letters.

Andromaque is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse. It was first performed on 17 November 1667 before the court of Louis XIV in the Louvre in the private chambers of the Queen, Marie Thérèse, by the royal company of actors, called "les Grands Comédiens", with Thérèse Du Parc in the title role. The company gave the first public performance two days later in the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. Andromaque, the third of Racine's plays, written at the age of 27, established its author's reputation as one of the great playwrights in France.

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

12th-century French poet

companion of Idomeneus

Athenian tragedy attributed to Euripides

poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

tragedy by Seneca

The Achilleid (; ) is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth to his death at Troy. Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death. What remains is an account of the hero's early life with the centaur Chiron, and an episode in which his mother, Thetis, disguised him as a girl on the island of Scyros, before he joined the Greek expedition against Troy.

1935 play by Jean Giraudoux

thumb|Posthomerica, 1541

tragedy by Seneca

French romance written by Benoît de Sainte-Maure; a medieval retelling of the theme of the Trojan war

episode in Greek mythology

work by Guido delle Colonne

alt=Helen walking along a city walls, alone: two women stand in the background, looking down over the wall |thumb|Helen on the Walls of Troy (1865) by Frederic Leighton