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Homers monumental epic set at the end of the Trojan War explores love, heroism, and the intricate relationship between gods and mortalsnow in a beautiful clothbound hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
The Iliad
is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilizationthe cornerstone of Western culture and an epic poem without rival in world literature. The story centers on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleuss killing of Hektor and the fall of Troy. But Homer's theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world: human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background. This edition presents Penguin Classics founder E. V. Rieus lively translation of Homers great epic.Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Recenzja
Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics.
Atlantic Monthly
Fitzgeralds swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make Homer live as never beforeThis is for every reader in our time and possibly for all time.
Library Journal
[Fitzgeralds
Odyssey
and
Iliad
] open up once more the unique greatness of Homers art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase.
The Yale Review
What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent, the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr. Fitzgeralds.
National Review
With an Introduction by Gregory Nagy
O autorze
Seven Greek cities claim the honor of being the birthplace of
Homer
(c. 8th7th century BC), the poet to whom the composition of the
Iliad
and the
Odyssey
are attributed. The
Iliad
is the oldest surviving work of Western literature, but the identityor even the existenceof Homer himself is a complete mystery, with no reliable biographical information having survived.
E. V. Rieu
initiated Penguin Classics with Allen Lane, and his famous translation of the
Odyssey
was the first book published in the series in 1947.
The Iliad
followed in 1950.Coralie Bickford-Smith is an award-winning designer at Penguin Books, where she has created several highly acclaimed series designs. She studied typography at Reading University and lives in London.

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