HOMER, Works. The Iliad.

Works. The Iliad.

Volume I. By Franciszek Dmochowski. Warsaw 1804. in Drukarnia Xięży Piarów. 8, pp. [8], 384, publisher's cloth binding, green and red slipcase and gilt on spine.
Heavy rubbing of the binding, browning and a trace of flooding of the lower edge of the pages, traces of dampstaining, own stamps. The Iliad - next to the "Odyssey" the second of the epics, the authorship of which is attributed to Homer. The works are the oldest monuments of Greek and European literature in general. The theme of this heroic epic is the wrath of Achilles and the related epizdoy of the Trojan War.