Illiad Book II Summary Essay
BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION This reading report is based on Book II of “The Iliad of Homer” translated by Richmond Lattimore. ... SUMMARY Book II of Iliad opens with the god Zeus unable to sleep and restless. ... It is at this point in Book II that the tide begins to turn. ... The distaste the gods have with Agamemnon is further brought to out attention in the reading of section often referred to as the catalog of the ship (which I did not go into in the summary).