Iliad Of Homer, Paperback Book, By: Homer

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.

About the Author:

Richmond Lattimore (1906-1984) was a poet, translator, and long-time professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.

• Books Author: Homer
• Number Of Pages: 608
• Language: English
• Publisher: Chicago
• Books Category: كتب متنوعة
• Book Format: Paperback
• Books_ISBN: 0226470490
• Publication Date: January 1, 2011