The Iliad of Homer -- Homer

<p>"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the <i>Iliad</i> in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation--the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. <p/>This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's <i>Iliad</i> is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century--while leaving the <i>poem</i> 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. <p/>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.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Homer<br><b>Publisher:</b> University of Chicago Press<br><b>Published:</b> 11/15/2011<br><b>Pages:</b> 608<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b