Book 1 : Forced by Apollo's punishment to return Chryses' daughter, Agamemnon takes Achilles' prize-girl ; Achilles has his mother ask Zeus to favor the Trojans ; Hera finds out and quarrels with Zeus --
Book 2 : After telling a deceptive dream, Agamemnon orders withdrawal ; Odysseus halts it, then scourges Thersites for abusing Agamemnon ; the lords rouse the army. Catalog of Achaians and Trojans --
Book 3 : Paris avoids Menelaos' response to his challenge, then agrees to fight ; from the wall Helen identifies the Achaian lords ; Priam goes and oaths are sworn ; Paris loses, but Aphrodite takes him away --
Book 4 : The Gods confirm Troy's ruin ; Athena makes Pandaros violate the oaths by wounding Menelaos, whom Machaon treats ; Agamemnon urges the lords ; roused by gods, the armies battle --
Book 5 : Athena grants Diomedes glory ; he kills Pandaros and wounds Aineias and Aprhodite ; the Achaian and Trojan lords battle, joined by Athena, Hera, and Ares, whom Diomedes wounds --
Book 6 : Without any gods the battle continues ; Agamemnon kills Adrestos ; Diomedes and Glaukos talk and exchange armor ; in Troy Hektor encounters Hekabe, Helen, Paris, and Andromache --
Book 7 : Hektor challenges the Achaian lords ; Agamemnon restrains Menelaos, Ajax is chosen, the fight is halted ; Paris will not return Helen ; the dead are buried, the Achaians build defenses --
Book 8 : Zeus keeps the gods away ; the Achaians flee the Trojans' attack but defend the wall; Hera and Athena plan to aid them, but Zeus forbids it ; at night the Trojans build watchfires --
Book 9 : Heeding Nestor's rebuke, Agamemnon offers gifts to Achilles if he will yield ; Odysseus, Ajax, and Phoinix bear the message and plead with him ; he relents - he will stay but not fight --
Book 10 : At a night council the Achaians dispatch spies, Diomedes and Odysseus, who capture and kill the Trojan spy Dolon, then slaughter Rhesos and his Thracian troops and report back --
Book 11 : Agamemnon rampages and is wounded ; Paris and Sokos wound Diomedes, Odysseus, Machaon, and Eurypylos ; Achilles sends Patroklos to question Nestor, who urges him to enter the battle --
Book 12 : Battle rages at the wall, which gods later will destroy ; the Trojans keep attacking, despite an omen ; Sarpedon speaks to Glaukos ; Ajax and Teukros fight, and Hektor breaks the gate --
Book 13 : Poseidon aids the Achaians ; leaders of both sides battle ; at the ships the Ajaxes hold off Hektor, who decides to retreat, but, emboldened by Paris, answers Ajax's jeers and leads on --
Book 14 : Poseidon encourages the Achaian lords to keep fighting ; Hera plots to make Zeus sleep, aiding Poseidon, who marshals the Achaians ; struck down, Hektor revives ; the Achaians prevail --
Book 15 : Awakening, Zeus sends Iris to stop Poseidon and Apollo to aid the Trojans ; Hektor fights Ajax, then leads his army against the ships with fire ; Ajax, ranging the decks, repels them --
Book 16 : Yielding to Patroklos' plea, Achilles sends him out with the Myrmidons ; he kills Sarpedon and routs the Trojans ; Apollo takes the body, rouses Hektor, and helps him kill Patroklos --
Book 17 : Achaians and Trojans battle over Patroklos' body ; Hektor dons Achilles' armor ; with gods aiding, both sides rally ; Achilles' horses weep ; Menelaos sends Antilochos to tell Achilles --
Book 18 : Achilles, Thetis, and sea-nymphs lament the heroes' death ; Achilles rescues Patroklos' body ; at Thetis' request, Hephaistos makes arms for her son, including an elaborate shield --
Book 19 : Receiving the arms, Achilles renounces his wrath ; Agamemnon blames Delusion, which harms even Zeus, and gives both gifts and girl to Achilles ; he arms ; Xanthos foretells his death --
Book 20 : Zeus sends the gods to aid both sides ; Achilles speaks and fights with Aineias, whom Poseidon saves, then faces Hektor ; whom Apollo saves, then keeps on rampaging and killing --
Book 21 : Achilles kills many men in the river, who begs him to stop, then threatens ; Hera sends Hephaistos to quell the river ; the gods oppose each other ; the Trojans go into the city --
Book 22 : His parents beg Hektor to come in ; Hektor refuses ; Achilles chases him ; Athena deceives him into stopping ; Achilles strikes him, rejects his dying plea, and drags him ; the women wail --
Book 23 : In sleep, Achilles sees Patroklos ; he mourns ; the winds light the pyre. The funeral games : chariot-racing, boxing, wrestling, footrace, spear-fight, hurling a lump, archery, and spear-throw --
Book 24 : Achilles keeps dragging Hektor ; angered, Zeus says he must give up the body ; with Hermes' aid Priam goes to ransom it ; they meet, Achilles restrains the battle, and Hektor is buried --
List of proper names in the Iliad.
