Which statement best describes the Iliad?

a.
The Iliad is the term for the earliest Olympic contests between handicapped people and women.

b.
The Iliad is a series of Greek medical books describing all the laws of nature and healing that were known at the time.

c.
The Iliad was the famous Greek ship that sailed across the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Ionian Seas to rescue part of the army from Troy.

d.
The Iliad is an epic poem that celebrates the Greeks who waged war to win back Helen, and the Trojans who fought to fend off the Greek invaders.

d. The Iliad is an epic poem that celebrates the Greeks who waged war to win back Helen, and the Trojans who fought to fend off the Greek invaders.

it is a sequel to Homer's Odyssey

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taskmasters taskmasters · Answer 2 · 2016-01-26T04:24:33+01:00

The answer is d. It is an ancient Greek Poem set in the Trojan War. According to the poem, Paris steals the wife of King Menelaus. A long war ensues and many soldiers die. In one battle, Achilles who refuses to fight allows Pat oculus to wear his armor and fight the Trojans. He is killed by Hector who takes the armor and this angers Achilles . Wearing provided by his mother Thetis and made by the God Hephaestus, he fights the Trojans and kills Hector and drags his body around Troy. Later he surrenders Hector’s body to King Priam. Later Achilles dies after being by an arrow by Paris. With the help of Odysseus, the Greeks manage to breech the Trojans by hiding inside a wooden horse and at nightfall, they laid siege to Troy killing its people and burning the city to the ground. Helen returns to Menelaus and the war ends.