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# Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 The Troy story
  - 1.1 The catalyst for the Trojan War
  - 1.2 Sources for the Trojan War
- 2 Homer’s Iliad
- 3 Homer’s oral art I
  - 3.1 Meter and word order
  - 3.2 Epithets
  - 3.3 Homeric music
- 4 Homer’s oral art II
  - 4.1 Insightful similes
- Conclusion
- Images
- References

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