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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand the plot of the Iliad and the wider cycle of myths of which it was a part

- identify characteristic features that show how the Iliad was composed orally

- use these features to think about and interpret the poem.

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OpenLearn - Introducing Homer's Iliad
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