Iliad

Iliad, the great epic poem of Homer, consisting of 24 books, the subject of which is the “wrath of Achilles” (q.v.), and the events which followed during the last year of the ten years' Trojan War, so called from Ilion, one of the names of Troy. See Ilium.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)