Iliad

n.

1.

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

Noun

1.

Iliad - a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy

(language, real-time)

ILIAD - A real-time language. ["On the Design of a Language for Programming Real-Time Concurrent Processes", H.A. Schutz, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-5(3):248-255, May 1979].

epic, epic poem, epos, heroic poem