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The Iliad, Homer ; translated by Emily R. Wilson

eng

Includes bibliographical references

mapsgenealogical tables

no index present

poetry

The Iliad

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Homer ; translated by Emily R. Wilson

The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017, critics lauded it. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: The Iliad. In Wilson's hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its battle scenes, roaring with the clamour of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors and the anguished cries of dying men. Wilson's unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poem's profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even "complicated", human beings. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homer's poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation

Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia

Introduction -- Translator's note -- Maps -- The quarrel -- The multitude -- Gifts of the goddess -- First blood -- Gods on the battlefield -- Price of honor -- A duel -- The scales tip -- The embassy -- Espionage by night -- Wounds -- The wall -- The waves -- An afternoon nap -- Fire at the ships -- Love and death -- Battle for a dead man -- Divine armor -- A meal before dying -- The warrior's return -- The river -- A race to death -- Funeral games -- A time to mourn -- Notes -- Genealogies -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments