The Iliad: A New Prose Translation (Penguin Classics)
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'The best modern prose translation of The Iliad' Robin Lane Fox, The Times
The first of the world's great tragedies, The Iliad centres on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. In a series of dramatic set pieces, it follows the story of the humiliation of Achilleus at the hands of Agamemnon and his slaying of Hektor: a barbarous act with repercussions that ultimately determine the fate of Troy. The Iliad not only paints an intimate picture of individual experience, but also offers a universal perspective in which human loss and suffering are set against a vast and unpitying divine background where fickle, quarrelsome gods decide the fate of men.
Translated with an Introduction by Martin Hammond
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Reviews for The Iliad: A New Prose Translation (Penguin Classics)
Robin Lane Fox
Financial Times
This new prose translation of the Iliad is outstandingly good . . . to read it is to be gripped by it
Classical Review
Superbly direct and eloquent . . . by its sensitivity, fluency, and flexibility, it will win a permanent place on the shelves of Homer-lovers
Martin Fagg
Times Educational Supplement
Martin Hammond's new version is the best and most accurate there has ever been, as smooth as cream but as clear as water . . . Hammond's Iliad deserves to become a standard book
Peter Levi
Independent
Surely the best Iliad in quite a few decades
Greece & Rome Journal
Here is a fine Iliad for our times, to be read with great pleasure
Philip Howard
The Times