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The Iliad

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Description for The Iliad Paperback. A stunning new translation of the classic tale of the fall of Troy from one of the world's finest translators. If you enjoyed THE SONG OF ACHILLES, discover the original and the best.. Translator(s): Mitchell, Stephen. Num Pages: 544 pages, map (black and white). BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 398.

A stunning new translation of the classic tale of the fall of Troy from one of the world's finest translators. If you enjoyed THE SONG OF ACHILLES, discover the original and the best...

Man seduces another's wife then kidnaps her. The husband and his brother get a gang together to steal her back and take revenge. The woman regrets being seduced and wants to escape, whilst the man's entourage resent the position they have been placed in. Yet the battle lines have been drawn and there is no going back...

Not the plot of the latest Hollywood thriller, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753827772
SKU
V9780753827772
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99-10

About Homer
The ILIAD is thought to have been composed in the second half of the eighth century BC. Stephen Mitchell is a bestselling translator. He has received great acclaim for his translations of GILGAMESH, THE BHAGAVAD GITA, THE TAO TE CHING, Rilke's SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, and THE BOOK OF JOB. He was educated at Amherst College, the Sorbonne and Yale University. ... Read more

Reviews for The Iliad
The verse is well-forged and clean-limbed, pulsing along in an unobtrusive pentameter...Mitchell has re-energised it for a new generation
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
A sturdy, muscular, and nuanced translation that will surely bring many new readers to this great work, "one of the monuments of our own magnificence", in Stephen Mitchell's happy formulation
John Banville Well-forged and clean-limbed, the ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Iliad


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