Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

The correct answer is D.

The Iliad is a Greek epic and the oldest written poem in Western literature, and it is believed that it was written by Homer.

Its story is focused on the anger of Achilles and tells the events occurred during 51 days in the last year of the Trojan War, which according to oral and written Greek tradition lasted ten years and ended with the victory of the Greeks thanks to the strategy devised by Odysseus (Ulysses).