Iliad of Homer

"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.

Product details

• Authors: Homer, Richmond (TRN)/ Martin Homer/ Lattimore
• Assisted by: Richard Martin (Editor), Richard Martin (Introduction), Richmond Lattimore (Translation), Lattimore Richmond (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2011
• EAN: 9780226470498
• ISBN: 978-0-226-47049-8
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts