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The Iliad

Homer (author.). Wilson, Emily R., 1971- (translator.).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 1324001801
ISBN: 9781324001805
Physical Description: lxxv, 761 pages : maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Translator's note -- Maps -- The quarrel -- The multitude -- Gifts of the goddess -- First blood -- Gods on the battlefield -- Price of honor -- A duel -- The scales tip -- The embassy -- Espionage by night -- Wounds -- The wall -- The waves -- An afternoon nap -- Fire at the ships -- Love and death -- Battle for a dead man -- Divine armor -- A meal before dying -- The warrior's return -- The river -- A race to death -- Funeral games -- A time to mourn -- Notes -- Genealogies -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments.
Language Note:	Translated from the Ancient Greek.