ILIAS


Homer's Iliad
The Classic Masterpiece
In Homeric Greek


This e-text in Apple Macintosh and Adobe Acrobat PDF versions is based on the following printed text:

Homer. Homeri Opera in five volumes. David B. Monro and Thomas W. Allen. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1920. OCLC: 29448041

The text files below may be viewed on any Apple Macintosh computer.

The PDF files below may be viewed on any computer with the latest free Adobe Acrobat Reader.


Directions for viewing the text files on an Apple Macintosh computer:

  • Download this font: Athenian.suit.sit
  • If the SIT archive doesn't decompress automatically, decompress it (using the free StuffitExpander).
  • Install the resulting Athenian.suit TrueType font in your System Folder (by dragging the decompressed font onto your closed System Folder).
  • Next, if you want to view these files in your web browser, you'll need to bookmark this page, quit your web browser, and relaunch it. Then, set your browser's font preferences to use the Athenian font. And then come back here to this page, and click the links below.
  • If you just want to view these files in a text editor (free TexEdit Plus is a good one), then simply option click on any link below, and save the plain text file to disk As Source.
  • Then, just drag the text file on top of the TexEdit icon to open the file, select all (cmd-a) and set the font to Athenian.
  • That's it! Enjoy the masterpiece!

Directions for viewing the PDF files with the latest free Adobe Acrobat Reader:

  • Download and install the latest free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  • Make sure the PDFViewer is in your browser's plugin folder.
  • Click on the PDF URL below.
  • That's it! Enjoy the masterpiece!

Download all 24 text files and the Mac Athenian font in a single SIT archive.
All of these files, including the Athenian font, are in part based on materials from the following URL's, cleaned up and ever so slightly corrected on the basis of the source printed text: web-Homer-Iliad-TOC.html

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