A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ILIAD

Thu, 2 Jan '25
Epic with the line "Come, friend, you too must die"
Wed, 11 Dec '24
Epic work that begins "Sing, goddess, of the anger of Achilles"
Sun, 3 Sep '23
Paris is found in it
Mon, 21 Aug '23
Story with Achilles
Mon, 3 Jul '23
Epic poem written in Homeric Greek
Wed, 20 Jul '22
Poem with about 16,000 lines
Mon, 11 Jul '22
Homeric epic set during the Trojan War
Wed, 20 Apr '22
Epic poem written in dactylic hexameter
Tue, 20 Jul '21
It's a long story
Sun, 23 May '21
First work read in Columbia's Literature Humanities course
Mon, 15 Mar '21
Trojan War epic poem
Mon, 25 Jan '21
Classic work that's the basis for Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida"