Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Iliad

Iliad , noun

[Latin Ilias, -adis, Greek {not transcribed}, {not transcribed} (sc. {not transcribed}), from {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, Ilium, the city of Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium, which is a poetical name of Troy.]

A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.