Drevnegrecheskaya epicheskaya poema o sobytiyakh Troyanskoy voyny, sosredotochennaya vokrug gneva Akhilla i ego konflikta s Agamemnonom. V sud'by voinov postoyanno vmeshivayutsya bogi, a tema slavy sosedstvuet s razmyshleniyami o smerti i chelovecheskoy uchasti.