This landmark translation-specifically designed, like the oral original, to be read aloud-will soon be required reading for every student of Greek antiquity, and the great traditions of history and literature to which it gave birth. In all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers.įeaturing an enticingly personal introduction, a detailed synopsis of each book, a wide-ranging glossary, and explanatory notes for the few puzzling in-text items, the book also includes a select bibliography for those who want to learn more about Homer and the Greek epic. With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan War Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the. One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, theIliadis a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. West, whose edition of the original Greek. One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Mitchells Iliad is also the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L. Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: 22382 (With 800 linked footnotes) 16452 (In blank verse, Many footnotes.

The iliad translation