"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. 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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ISBN
9780226470382
Publisert
2016
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Vendor
University of Chicago Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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