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Homer - The Iliad

By: Penguin Publishing

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP old price: $9.95


Product Info

Title
Homer - The Iliad
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Homer
Publish Year
1991
Pages
682
Dimensions
5x7x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147364351
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.