Iliad - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: iliadIliad
A celebrated Greek epic poem in twenty four books on the destruction of Ilium the ancient Troy The Iliad is ascribed to Homer...
Batrachomyomachy
The battle between the frogs and mice a Greek parody on the Iliad of uncertain authorship...
Hexameter
A verse of six feet the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees the fifth must regularly be a dactyl and the sixth always a spondee In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the AEligneid of Virgil In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity...
Rhapsody
A recitation or song of a rhapsodist a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation or usually recited at one time hence a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey called also a book...
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