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The Iliad

By Homer

The Iliad Classics

The Iliad

By Homer

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'The best modern prose translation of The Iliad' Robin Lane Fox, The Times The first of the world's great tragedies, The Iliad centres on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. In a series of dramatic set pieces, it follows the story of the humiliation of Achilleus at the hands of Agamemnon and his slaying of Hektor: a barbarous act with repercussions that ultimately determine the fate of Troy. The Iliad not only paints an intimate picture of individual experience, but also offers a universal perspective in which human loss and suffering are set against a vast and unpitying divine background where fickle, quarrelsome gods decide the fate of men. Translated with an Introduction by Martin Hammond
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
528
Release Date:
1987-08-27
Publication Date:
1987-08-27
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140444440
ISBN13:
9780140444445
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
361 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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