Acronym meanings of ILIAD. Acronym & meanings of ILIAD

The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.

Rhapsody

A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.

Achillean

Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

Stentor

A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.

Hexameter

A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.

Turn

v. t.

To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.

Hero

The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.

liad

A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.

Batrachomyomachy

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

Eyliad

See /iliad.

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