Like its heroes Homer’s Iliad has earned immortal glory. It is the sublime Greek epic poem which tells of the anger of Achilles, and its dreadful consequences for persons and events during the war at Troy. Great questions still remain for its many readers: where, how and when it was composed and why it has such exceptional power. Robin Lane Fox applies his life-long love and engagement with the poem to answer them, deepening and enhancing what we will find in it as a result. Long planned, compellingly written and conceived, it is a memorable tribute to the poem underlying many of his own books.