The Iliad
ISBN: 9780140275360 | 0140275363
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub. Date: 10/1/1998
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This timeless poem-more than 2,700 year old-still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of this epic poem will be gripped by the finely tuned translation and enlightening introduction. Translated by Robert Fagles Introduction and Notes by Bernard
| Translator's Preface | ix | ||||
| INTRODUCTION | |||||
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| 72 | (1) | |||
| 72 | (5) | |||
| HOMER: The Iliad | |||||
| 77 | (22) | |||
| 99 | (29) | |||
| 128 | (17) | |||
| 145 | (19) | |||
| 164 | (31) | |||
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| 231 | (20) | |||
| 251 | (25) | |||
| 276 | (20) | |||
| 296 | (29) | |||
| 325 | (16) | |||
| 341 | (28) | |||
| 369 | (18) | |||
| 387 | (25) | |||
| 412 | (30) | |||
| 442 | (25) | |||
| 467 | (21) | |||
| 488 | (15) | |||
| 503 | (17) | |||
| 520 | (21) | |||
| 541 | (18) | |||
| 559 | (29) | |||
| 588 | (33) | |||
| NOTES | |||||
| 617 | (2) | |||
| 619 | (2) | |||
| Notes on the Translation | 621 | (14) | |||
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 635 | (4) | |||
| Pronouncing Glossary | 639 |
Robert Fagles, the winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, is Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University and received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Yale University.
Bernard Knox is Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
Bernard Knox is Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
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