I think this book does a marvelous job at depicting The Iliad.
It's detailed and filled with intriguing graphics, but it sadly, was not my favorite art style. Also I didn't realize that I'd be reading The Iliad basically again, and I could feel the heaviness of the writing pulling me down. It felt like a task to read instead of a pleasure. Plus, I do not think I have ever read a graphic novel this long, and it led me to feel as if this book was taking forever to read. I think that can be laid on me to blame, but the pacing just was not the easiest to handle.
The main perk is the writing's similarity to the actual epic, but while the regular copies have no pictures to help new readers, this edition does (or at least this part of TI). The graphic novel would be very beneficial in high schools, in my opinion, but I do not think it adds anything more than that because scholars/ readers will read the original in most situations. I guess it could be for those who do not like the original text, but I was just all around shrugging my shoulders as to who this was marketed to.
All in all, I would not recommend to people who have already read the story, which I think, sadly, knocks a decent people off the list since it's usually reading material in schools.
Thank you Candlewick Press for sending me an ARC to review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.