The Just City on Iliad: “we knew all about the Trojan War—a version of the Iliad was one of our favorite books.”
The Art of Public Speaking on Iliad: “Ben Jonson could repeat all he had written. Scaliger memorized the Iliad in three weeks.”
Jude the Obscure on Iliad: “I have read two books of the _Iliad_, besides being pretty familiar with passages such as the speech of Phoenix in the ninth book, the fight of Hector and Ajax in the fourteenth, the appearance of Achilles unarmed and his heavenly armour in the eighteenth, and the funeral games in the twenty-third.”
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea on Iliad: “He related his fishing, and his combats, with natural poetry of expression; his recital took the form of an epic poem, and I seemed to be listening to a Canadian Homer singing the Iliad of the regions of the North.”
The Last Chronicle of Barset on Iliad: “He had a mutton chop at home that evening, and spent his time in endeavouring to read out loud to himself certain passages from the Iliad;--for he had bought a Homer as he returned from his office.”
The Last of the Mohicans on Iliad: “Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay Dissolve the council, and their chief obey." --Pope's Iliad”
Walden on Iliad: “In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.”
Billy Budd on Iliad: “till a better epic came along, swear it was not very far behind the _Iliad_.”
Leaves of Grass on Iliad: “…priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene, The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas, Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur, The Cid, Roland at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen,…”
Spoon River Anthology on Iliad: “I have written the Iliad and Hamlet; And I have explored your mysteries, And searched for you without ceasing”