1·Of Homer's two epic poems, the Odyssey has always been more popular than the Iliad, perhaps because it not particularly likable hero.
在荷马的两部史诗中，《奥德赛》一直比《伊利亚特》更受欢迎，也许是因为它不是特别受欢迎的英雄。
2·Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or on us as readers.
弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝给诗或我们读者带来的影响如同美杜莎所带来的影响。
3·Parry realised that if you were setting out to create memorable poems, the Odyssey and the Iliad were exactly the kind of poems you'd create.
帕里意识到，如果你要创作出令人难忘的诗歌，《奥德赛》和《伊利亚特》正好符合你要创作的那一类诗歌。
4·So there were all kinds of attempts to read Homer, for example, the Iliad or the Odyssey as allegories for physical science.
比如说，希腊人尝试过用各种方法去解读《荷马史诗》，把《伊利亚特》或《奥德赛》解读为包含科学寓意。
5·When I started teaching I taught many, many, many sections of English 129, and of course in the first semester, the first text that we read was The Iliad.
我最开始教书的时候,我教了很多有关英语的课程，理所当然的在第一个学期，我们读的第一个文本便是《伊利亚特》