The Iliad

This magnificent new translation sets the highest standards for beauty, accuracy, and aliveness. Thanks to his scholarship and poetic power, which recreates the energy, simplicity, speed, grace, and continual thrust and pull of the original, "The Iliad"'s ancient story bursts vividly into new life and will reach an even larger audience of readers.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Edward McCrorie is a poet and translator whose works include several collections of poems and an acclaimed translation of Virgil's Aeneid. He is also a professor of English at Providence College.

Zusammenfassung

This version of the Iliad is ideal for readings and performances.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Homer, Homer Homer, Edward (TRN)/ Cook Homer/ McCrorie
• Mitarbeit: Cook Erwin F. (Einführung), Edward McCrorie (Übersetzung), Edward (Professor Emeritus of English McCrorie (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.10.2012
• EAN: 9781421406428
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0642-8
• Seiten: 552
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 236 mm x 36 mm
• Serien: Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity; Johns Hopkins New Translations; Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity; Johns Hopkins New Translations
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Altertum; POETRY / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Homer, Iliad, Achilles, Troy, Hector, epic, Zeus, Helen