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Item Details
Title:
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THE ILIAD OF HOMER
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By: |
Homer, Richmond Lattimore (Trans), Richard Martin |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£31.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0226470482 |
ISBN 13: |
9780226470481 |
Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 November, 2011 |
Pages: |
528 |
Description: |
A volume that actively invites new readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand 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. |
Synopsis: |
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 new maps round out the book.The result is a volume that actively invites new readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand 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. |
Illustrations: |
2 maps |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
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Returnable |
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