the iliad
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative letter-case form of the Iliad.
Example Sentences
- "With Hector’s death and Patrokles’ funeral, the books of The Iliad close."
- "The most plain, direct and noble translation of “The Iliad” into English, at least for that generation of college students who had it pressed into their lucky, sweaty palms, has long been Richmond Lattimore’s of 1951, though Robert Fitzgerald’s translation of 1974 and Robert Fagles’s of 1990 have their fierce adherents."
- "Many wishing to make sense of wars in their own time have reached for The Iliad."