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The Iliad of Homer
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paperback. Translator(s): Lattimore, Richmond. Num Pages: 528 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 34. Weight in Grams: 704. 528 pages, 2 maps. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 34. Weight: 698. Translator(s): Lattimore, Richmond.
"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226470498
SKU
V9780226470498
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Ref
99-50
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