The Greeks are fighting a deadly plague, courtesy of Apollo, when “The Iliad” begins. The punishment owes to Achaean leader Agamemnon’s having swiped Chryseis, the daughter of Apollo’s ...

(Homer's Iliad contains timeless lessons of war.) The Olympian god Apollo (depicted in a relief from the Temple of Apollo Palatinus, Rome) opposed the Greeks during the Trojan War.

Brian Satterfield, The Beginning of the "Iliad": The 'Contradictions' of the Proem and the Burial of Hektor, Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 64, Fasc. 1 (2011), pp. 1-20 ...

Timothy Edward Kane stars as The Poet in “An Iliad,” a remount of an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem about the Trojan War that premiered at the Court Theatre in 2011.