This presentation gives a visual overview of Homer's Iliad and associated myths, using famous works of art.

1. Homer’s Iliad

3. Homer

4. Homer and His Guide
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1874

5. Homer and the Shepherds in a Landscape
Camille Corot, 1845

6. The Apotheosis of Homer
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1827

7. Prologue

8. The Judgment of Paris
Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1528

9. Helen of Troy
Gabriel Dante Rossetti, 1863

10. Venus Convinces Helen to Hear Paris
Angelica Kauffman, 1790

11. The Abduction of Helen
Francesco Primaticcio, 1530

12. The Iliad

13. Briseis Brought Before Agamemnon
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1757

14. The Wrath of Achilles
Michel Martin Drolling, 1819

15. Helen on the Walls of Troy
Lord Frederic Leighton, 19th c.

16. The Love of Paris and Helen
Jacques-Louis David, 1788

17. Hector Admonishes Paris for His Softness and Exhorts
Him to Go to War
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1786

18. Hector’s Farewell to Andromache
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1812

19. The Embassy Sent by Agamemnon
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1801

20. Patroclos, 1780
Jacques-Louis David

21. The Greeks and the Trojans Fighting over the Body of Patroclos
Antoine Wiertz, 1845

23. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclos
Nikolai Ge, 1855

24. Thetis Begs Hephaistos For Weapons for Achilles
Anthony van Dyck, c. 1632

25. Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles
Benjamin West, 1806

26. The Triumph of Achilles
Franz von Matsch, 19th c.

27. Andromache Faints
Josef Abel, 1818

28. Priam at Achilles’s Feet
Alessandro Varotari, 17th c.

29. Hector’s Body
Jacques-Louis David, 1778

30. Hector’s Body Carried Back to Troy
180-200 CE

31. Epilogue

32. The Trojan Horse, c. 760 BCE

33. Construction of the Trojan Horse
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1760

34. The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1773

35. The Fire of Troy
Francisco Collantes, c. 1634

36. The Fire of Troy
Kerstiaen de Keuninck, 17th c.

37. The Fire of Troy
The Frankenthal School, 17th c.

38. Burning Troy
J. G. Trautmann, c. 1760