What is the subject of the Iliad?

In fact, Homer's epic of the Iliad consists of a small part of a much larger epic. In the epic, the 10 years of the campaign of the Achaeans to Troy and its 51 days are told. With its 24 episodes, The Iliad tells only a small part of Trojan War. Ilias or Iliad means "the epic of Ilyon." The epic, consists of 15,693 verses, the place where the war occurred is called 106 times as Ilios and 49 times as Troy. In the background of the epic it is told: the beauty contest between 3 goddesses, and the choice of Paris, who is left to the Ida Mountains because of the belief that after his birth he will bring destruction to the city. After he grows up, he returns to Troy and choose Helen. Paris kidnaps Helen, who is the wife of the Spartan king Menelaos and the events begin. The first verses of the epic tell about the Akhaian hero Akhilleus, who is forced to give his slave Briseis to Agamemnon the commander of Akhaians, and the retreat of the furious Akhilleus from the war. The events and developments of the war are told in two different levels like gods and humans. The epic ends with Akhilleus' killing of Trojan hero Hektor and with the funeral scene of Hektor. Capturing the city with the wooden horse is told in Homer's second epic, the Odyssey.