"This volume is issue in the hope that it may be useful to art students. It includes the entire series of Flaxman's compositions in illustration of The Illiad of Homer."--Publisher's notice

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

These 110 deceptively simple illustrations are the great achievement of English artist John Flaxman. Awash in pathos and recalling a classically Greek style, they have inspired such artists as Goya and Ingres.