Homeri Ilias Graece. [Homer’s Iliad in Greek]

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Item Number: 137145

Florentiae: Typis V. Batelli et Filorum, 1837.

Finely bound example of Homer’s Iliad. Quarto, two volumes bound in full contemporary polished calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate blind-stamping and triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers, illustrated with tissue-guarded engraved plates, engraved pictorial title page. In very good condition. A very attractive 19th century binding.

Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states (Achaeans), The Iliad tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. In the modern vulgate (the standard accepted version), the Iliad contains 15,693 lines, divided into 24 books; it is written in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects. It is usually grouped in the Epic Cycle.