How long does it take to read The Iliad of Homer?
The Iliad of Homer by Homer takes about 7 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1505. 435 pages, about 119,625 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1,084 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book. The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived—and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.
Subjects: Odysseus (Greek mythology), Greeks, Poetry, Poesía, Greek Epic poetry, Hector (Legendary character)
