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How many pages are in the Iliad and the Odyssey?

How many pages are in the Iliad and the Odyssey?

442
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ISBN-13: 9781789432299
Publication date: 10/27/2020
Pages: 442
Sales rank: 130,122
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.98(d)

How many pages is the Iliad?

560
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ISBN-13: 9781593082321
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication date: 01/15/2006
Series: Barnes & Noble Classics Series
Pages: 560

How many books are in the Iliad and the Odyssey?

24 books
As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War.

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Which is longer Odyssey or Iliad?

If size matters to you, the Iliad is about 3,000 lines longer than the Odyssey.

Is the Iliad a long book?

The average reader will spend 11 hours and 44 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute).

How many Iliad books are there?

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.

Is The Iliad a long book?

Are Iliad and Odyssey the same?

While The Iliad is an epic tale of war and battle, The Odyssey is the story of a journey, a hero’s heroic effort to return to his home.

Which came first Iliad or Odyssey?

The Iliad is the earlier work (it was written first) [1]. Also the events in the Odyssey are a direct consequence of what happens in the Iliad and the reader of the Odyssey is assumed to know the summary of the plot in the Iliad and who the main characters are. So it would come natural to read the Iliad first.

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How many books is The Iliad?

How long does it take to read the Iliad and the Odyssey?

How many Odyssey books are there?

The Odyssey is an epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, who wanders for 10 years (although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks) trying to get home after the Trojan War.