Description: Iliad of Homer, Paperback by Lattimore, Richmond (TRN); Martin, Richard (INT), ISBN 0226470490, ISBN-13 9780226470498, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 th 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 th. 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.
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Book Title: Iliad of Homer
Number of Pages: 608 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Topic: Ancient / Greece, European / General, Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2011
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Weight: 25.9 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Homer
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
