The Iliad

Informationen zum Autor Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have composed the two great oral poems The Odyssey and The Iliad in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece Klappentext One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals. Zusammenfassung A translation of Homer's great epic poem. Fitzgerald has also translated Homer's "The Odyssey" and Virgil's "Aeneid".

Product details

• Authors: Homer
• Assisted by: Robert Fitzgerald (Translation)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.1992
• EAN: 9781857150605
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-060-5
• No. of pages: 594
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ancient Greece, POETRY / Ancient & Classical, POETRY / Epic, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient (Classical) Greek