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

Florentiae: Typis V. Batelli et Filorum , 1837.

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Homer's Iliad in Greek; finely bound in full polished 19th century calf

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.