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Volume two of four, books VII to XII, the Iliad in the original Greek text, with facing Latin crib translation, and English prose translation.
Intended for the use of readers wanting to read Homer who are familiar with some Latin and less Greek. Edited by Jason Powell. Greek text of W. Dindorf (1856); Latin from nineteenth century version of A.F Didot; English from A.T. Murray. The text is an original print by Powell, not a photocopy of the old out of print work.
In four volumes.
About the author
Homer is the name ascribed by the Ancient Greeks to the semi-legendary author of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the central works of Greek literature. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. The importance of Homer to the ancient Greeks is described in Plato's Republic, where he is referred to as the protos didaskalos, "first teacher", of tragedy, the hegemon paideias, "leader of learning" and the one who ten Hellada pepaideuken, "has taught Greece". Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds in Egypt.
