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Homer Samuel Butler
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Homer, Samuel Butler

The Iliad

Paperback (Book Sales, Inc. June 30, 2009) , Reprint edition
This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.
ISBN
1848373252 / 9781848373259
Pages
416
Weight
9.9 oz.
Dimensions
5.2 x 1.2 in.

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