Historical clue formulations

• Epic poem originally passed down orally — 2026-09-23
• Epic that ends "Such was the funeral of Hector, tamer of horses" — 2026-01-06
• Epic work that begins "Sing, goddess, of the anger of Achilles" — 2024-12-11
• Paris is found in it — 2023-09-03
• Story with Achilles — 2023-08-21
• Epic poem in Homeric Greek — 2023-07-03
• Poem with about 16,000 lines — 2022-07-20
• Homeric epic set during the Trojan War — 2022-07-11
• Epic poem written in dactylic hexameter — 2022-04-20
• It's a long story — 2021-07-20
• First work read in Columbia's Literature Humanities course — 2021-05-23
• Trojan War epic poem — 2021-03-15
• Classic work that's the basis for Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" — 2021-01-25
• Bronze Age chronicle — 2019-12-28
• Classic story in which Paris figures prominently — 2019-10-16
• Troy story — 2019-06-30
• Paris is found in it — 2019-06-22
• Whence the line "Beauty, terrible beauty! A deathless goddess - so she strikes our eyes!" — 2018-08-25
• Story featuring divine intervention — 2018-04-15
• Epic poem written in Homeric Greek — 2017-09-04
• Trojan War epic — 2017-08-15
• Long, old yarn — 2017-08-03
• Epic of Troy — 2016-08-31
• 24-book classic — 2016-07-23
• Paris fights in it — 2016-07-15
• Tale of Troy — 2016-05-18
• Old war story — 2016-01-15
• Work hinted at by the starts of 17-, 26-, 42- and 56-Across — 2015-12-07
• Homeric epic — 2015-09-21
• Achilles epic — 2015-01-26
• Required reading for a classics major — 2014-05-13
• It covers Hector's death — 2014-03-09
• Poem in which Paris plays a prominent part — 2013-07-24
• Trojan War epic — 2011-10-24
• Narrative set in the Bronze Age — 2011-10-22
• Tale of Achilles — 2011-01-25
• Collection of 24 books — 2010-12-04
• Epic translated by Alexander Pope — 2010-10-31
• Homeric epic — 2010-10-19
• Poem with approximately 16,000 lines — 2010-07-21
• Tale of Troy — 2009-12-01
• Literary work in which Paris is featured — 2009-11-22
• Trojan War epic — 2009-11-03
• Epic poem in dactylic hexameter — 2009-08-09
• Epic that includes the Teichoscopia — 2009-04-19
• Old war story — 2008-11-11
• Work that begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son ..." — 2008-08-05
• Its first word translates as "wrath" — 2007-11-25
• Poem that ends with the funeral of Hector — 2007-10-14
• Troy story? — 2007-09-11