The Iliad
$23.13
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2016
Summary
“This is the translation to read first.”–The New York Times Book Review
THE WORLD’S GREATEST WAR NOVEL
Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amid devastation and destruction. Perhaps the Western world’s first and best storyteller, Homer draws the reader in with bated breath. His masterful tale contains some of the most famous episodes in all of literature—the curse on the prophet Cassandra; the siege of Troy; the battle be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451474346 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451474341 |
| Author: | W.H.D. Rouse, Adam Nicolson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 172mm x 105mm |
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Critics Review
“A great poem cannot be fully translated unless by a poet almost as great as its original author…W.H.D. Rouse…retells the story in fast, modern, colloquial prose. It is the first version I have ever seen which drives on as rapidly as the original and therefore it makes an excellent introduction to Homer. This is the translation to read first, if you have never read The Iliad.”—The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
W.H.D. Rouse
Seth L. Schein is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He works mainly on Homeric epic, Attic tragedy, and receptions of classical literature and culture. His books include The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer’s Iliad, Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays (editor), and the translation of Sophokles: Philoktetes.
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