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The Iliad: a watercolor manga
All 24 books of Homer's Iliad in 95 illustrated pages. Free.
Book OneThe quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, the plague, and Thetis at the knees of Zeus.
Book TwoAgamemnon tests the army, Thersites is beaten, and the Greeks muster on the plain.
Book ThreeParis fights Menelaus for Helen, and Aphrodite snatches him away.
Book FourPandarus breaks the truce with an arrow, and the armies clash.
Book FiveDiomedes, driven by Athena, wounds Aphrodite and Ares.
Book SixGlaucus and Diomedes trade armor; Hector says farewell to Andromache and his son.
Book SevenHector and Ajax fight to a draw and exchange gifts; the Greeks build their wall.
Book EightZeus weighs the fates; a thousand Trojan campfires burn on the plain.
Book NineThe embassy to Achilles, and his refusal: two fates, a long life or undying glory.
Book TenThe night raid of Odysseus and Diomedes; Dolon and the white horses of Rhesus.
Book ElevenAgamemnon is wounded, Paris shoots Diomedes, and Nestor sends Patroclus to Achilles.
Book TwelveThe eagle and the serpent; Sarpedon speaks; Hector smashes the gate.
Book ThirteenPoseidon rouses the Greeks; Hector charges like a boulder.
Book FourteenHera lulls Zeus to sleep, and Ajax fells Hector with a stone.
Book FifteenZeus wakes; Apollo knocks down the wall like a sandcastle; fire at the ships.
Book SixteenPatroclus fights in Achilles' armor, kills Sarpedon, and is killed by Hector.
Book SeventeenThe fight over Patroclus' body; the immortal horses of Achilles weep.
Book EighteenAchilles' grief, his war cry at the trench, and the Shield of Achilles.
Book NineteenAchilles arms, and his horse Xanthus speaks of his death.
Book TwentyThe gods go to war; Poseidon saves Aeneas; Apollo hides Hector in mist.
Book Twenty-OneAchilles fights the river Scamander, and Hephaestus sets the water boiling.
Book Twenty-TwoAchilles chases Hector three times around Troy and kills him.
Book Twenty-ThreeThe ghost of Patroclus, the lock of hair, and the funeral pyre.
Book Twenty-FourPriam kisses the hands of Achilles, and Troy buries Hector, tamer of horses.Every caption and speech bubble is a word-for-word line from the Scriptorium Press translation of the Iliad. The pictures were drawn with an AI image model (Google's Nano Banana) and checked page by page against the text. Each book links to the full text of the same book, so you can read the scene in full after seeing it drawn.