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library.forgemesh.io – Ask the Iliad is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Retrieves the most relevant passages from Homer's Iliad in response to a natural-language question, with chapter and location citations.
Price / call$0.01
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Ask a question about Homer's Iliad and get back the most relevant passages from the text itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only — full-text search, not a generated summary or answer. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 15 verbatim passages from Homer's Iliad most relevant to the question posed, each accompanied by chapter number and precise location citation within the text. No generated summaries or AI-composed answers — only sourced original text.
Example use cases
Primary source retrieval for essay
“I'm writing a paper on the theme of kleos in the Iliad — can you pull the 10 most relevant passages from the text itself, with citations, so I can quote them directly?”
Fact-checking a claim about Homer
“Someone told me Achilles actually mourns Patroclus for days before the battle with Hector — can you find the actual Iliad passages that describe that, with chapter references?”
Book club prep on a specific scene
“We're discussing the gods' involvement in the Trojan War at our book club tonight — find me 5 passages from the Iliad where Zeus or Hera directly intervene in the fighting, with locations in the text.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/ask-the-iliadWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need verbatim, citable passages from Homer's Iliad with precise chapter and location references — for academic research, fact-checking, or quote retrieval. Prefer this over a generative summary endpoint when source fidelity and citation accuracy matter, or when you must avoid hallucinated quotations. This is a retrieval-only service, not a question-answering or paraphrasing service.
Side effects
- Question too vague to match any passage — returns few or no results
- Limit parameter exceeds 15 — likely clamped or rejected
- Question about a topic not present in the Iliad (e.g. Odyssey content) — returns unrelated or empty results
- Payment of 0.01 USDC not fulfilled — 402 response blocks the request
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max passages (default 5, max 15) |
| question | string | Your question about the book, e.g. "why is Achilles angry with Agamemnon?" |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"count": 3,
"title": "The Iliad",
"author": "Homer",
"method": "full-text retrieval — returns the most relevant passages from the book for your question; no summarization or generation",
"book_id": 6130,
"passages": [
{
"text": "…[Achilles] was furious, and his heart within his shaggy breast was divided…",
"chapter": 1,
"location": "chapter 1, passage #8"
}
],
"question": "why is Achilles angry with Agamemnon"
}
}Tags
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