The Iliad
Cover mockup.
The Iliad
In the tenth year of the war at Troy, Achilles quarrels with Agamemnon and withdraws from the fighting, and the Greeks pay for it.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 7–12
- First published
- c. 750 BC
- This edition
- Samuel Butler’s prose translation, in twenty-four books.
- Pages
- 358
- Prompts
- 24, one at the close of each book
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every book of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Achilles is “in two minds” and already drawing his sword when Minerva seizes him “by his yellow hair, visible to him alone.” Who decides that Agamemnon lives, the goddess or the man? Bracket what she forbids and what she still allows, then read his answer to her and judge how willingly he gives it.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages358
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts24, one at the close of each book
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 7–12