Dear Mom And Dad: Letter From The Soul Of An Aborted Fetus Comments

(cont.) ....'It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version, and was written in dactylic hexameter. ' Lucky us! bri : )

'The Iliad (/ˈɪliəd/; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, romanized: Iliás, Attic Greek: [iː.li.ás]; 'a poem about Ilium') is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.' (cont.)

i think I counted 96 stanzas. NINETY-SIX! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! I need ICE CREAM! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! BRI : )

NO, I did NOT read the whole poem...YET, but I may be back to finish it. I'm enjoying the rhyming, and so far it makes some sense to me. bri : )