Essential Classics are a quick way into some of the most exciting classic novels. Includes illustrations, a glossary and a reading quiz.

Retold for younger readers, The Iliad, an ancient Greek classic poem, is one of the greatest works of literature ever written. The story tells of a few days' fighting in the ten-year-long war between the Trojans and the Greeks. Heroes from both sides fight one another - how they fight, and how they die, is what is important to them.