The Iliad of Homer The Iliad of Homer

The Iliad of Homer

    • 3.2 • 10 Ratings
    • $14.99
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

“Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation.” For sixty years, that’s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore’s faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.

This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore’s Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore’s elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.

The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer’s poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived—and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
September 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
608
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Chicago Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
5.6
MB

Customer Reviews

drfred1 ,

I've been waiting for 5 years....

Yes! Finally! The best translation of the Iliad out there. If you love Classics, or just love amazing epics, Lattimore's translation of Homer's magnum opus can't be beat.

SuebiD ,

Terrible formatting. Makes the book virtually unreadable

This review refers to iBook version I downloaded to my iMac.

Although this is a highly respected translation of the Iliad, this ebook has been formatted such that the end of virtually every line of poem is wrapped to the next line. Not only does this make the book hard to read, but more important, it prevents you from seeing the sturcture of the lines of the poem. This is a shame.

Don’t waste your money on this ebook, You will be very disappointed and frustrated.

More Books Like This

The Iliad The Iliad
2015
The Iliad The Iliad
2023
The Iliad The Iliad
2011
The Iliad and The Odyssey + Homer and His Age The Iliad and The Odyssey + Homer and His Age
2013
The Iliad The Iliad
2017
The Iliad + FREE Audiobook Included The Iliad + FREE Audiobook Included
2013

More Books by Homer & Richmond Lattimore

The Odyssey The Odyssey
2010
The Iliad The Iliad
1938
The Odyssey The Odyssey
1997
The Iliad The Iliad
2012
The Odyssey The Odyssey
1950
The Iliad + The Odyssey The Iliad + The Odyssey
2015

Customers Also Bought

The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid of Virgil
1981
Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
2015
The Aeneid The Aeneid
1990
Inferno Inferno
1982
The Odyssey The Odyssey
2017
The Confessions The Confessions
2008