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The Iliad of Homerby Homer
Review-a-Day (What is Review-a-Day?)"Homer (or the stable of poets incorporated under the name Homer) was either given to polytheistic fantasy or was the genius adapter of a system of cosmological metaphors that no one — not Dante, not Shakespeare, not Cervantes — has ever matched for sheer imaginative insanity. Read Homer's hexameters and you find gods made in the image of man — jealous, mendacious, erotically charged, vengefully disposed, gender-specific know-it-alls, with empowering aptitudes that they wield as weapons in heaven as they do on earth." E. L. Doctorow, The Atlantic Monthly (read the entire Atlantic Monthly review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of the two ancient Greek epic poems, attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. Scholars dispute whether Homer existed and whether he was a single person, but it is clear that the poems spring from a long tradition of oral poetry. Their influence on subsequent Greek, Roman and European culture has been enormous. Review:"The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language." William Arrowsmith, Hudson Review Review:"Certainly the best modern verse translation." Gilbert Highet Review:"Richmond Lattimore is a fine translator of poetry because he has a poetic voice of his own, authentic and unmistakable and yet capable of remarkable range of modulation. His translations make the English reader aware of the poetry." New York Times Review:"Over the long haul Lattimore's translation is more powerful because its effects are more subtle." Booklist Review:"This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem...will appeal to admirers of Homer and the classics, and the multitude who always wanted to read the great Iliad but never got around to doing so." The American Book Collector Review:"Perhaps closer to Homer in every way than any other version made in English." Peter Green, The New Republic Synopsis:"The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."William Arrowsmith "Certainly the best modern verse translation."Gilbert Highet "This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem . . . will appeal to admirers of Homer and the classics, and the multitude who always wanted to read the great Iliad but never got around to doing so."The American Book Collector "Perhaps closer to Homer in every way than any other version made in English."Peter Green, The New Republic "The feat is decisive that it is reasonable to foresee a century or so in which nobody will try again to put the Iliad in English verse."Robert Fitzgerald "Each new generation is bound to produce new translations. [Lattimore] has done better with nobility, as well as with accuracy, than any other modern verse translator. In our age we do not often find a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation."Hugh Lloyd-Jones, New York Review of Books "Over the long haul Lattimore's translation is more powerful because its effects are more subtle."Booklist "Richmond Lattimore is a fine translator of poetry because he has a poetic voice of his own, authentic and unmistakable and yet capable of remarkable range of modulation. His translations make the English reader aware of the poetry."Moses Hadas, The New York Times Table of ContentsForeword
Introduction Book One Book Two Book Three Book Four Book Five Book Six Book Seven Book Eight Book Nine Book Ten Book Eleven Book Twelve Book Thirteen Book Fourteen Book Fifteen Book Sixteen Book Seventeen Book Eighteen Book Nineteen Book Twenty Book Twenty-One Book Twenty-Two Book Twenty-Three Book Twenty-Four Glossary of Names What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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