The Iliad
(Book)
Author:
Contributors:
Published:
Boston : Little, Brown, c1950.
Format:
Book
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Desc:
xix, 470 pages : ill. ; 20 cm.
Lexile measure:
1330L
Status:
Description
Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia.; The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: The Iliad. In Wilson's hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its battle scenes, roaring with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors and the anguished cries of dying men. Wilson's unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poem's profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even "complicated", human beings. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homer's poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
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Location
Call Number
Status
New London Adult Non Fiction
883
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Language:
English
Lexile measure:
1330
Notes
General Note
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Homer., & Chase, A. H. (1950). The Iliad. Boston, Little, Brown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Homer and Alston Hurd Chase. 1950. The Iliad. Boston, Little, Brown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Homer and Alston Hurd Chase, The Iliad. Boston, Little, Brown, 1950.
MLA Citation (style guide)Homer. and Alston Hurd Chase. The Iliad. Boston, Little, Brown, 1950.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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