Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated FE. Mylar cover included.
“Let me not then die ingloriously and without struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war.
Soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished, hero and coward, men women, young, old—The Iliad evokes in poignant, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Trojan war. And, as told by Homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages.
Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander’s translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source—a translation epic in scale and yet devastating in its precision and power.
Read Alikes for The Iliad: The Odyssey by Homer; The Aeneid by Virgil; Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes; The Oresteia by Aeschylus; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller; The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker; Circe by Madeline Miller
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated FE. Mylar cover included.
“Let me not then die ingloriously and without struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war.
Soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished, hero and coward, men women, young, old—The Iliad evokes in poignant, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Trojan war. And, as told by Homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages.
Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander’s translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source—a translation epic in scale and yet devastating in its precision and power.
Read Alikes for The Iliad: The Odyssey by Homer; The Aeneid by Virgil; Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes; The Oresteia by Aeschylus; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller; The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker; Circe by Madeline Miller
ISBN 978-0-06-204627-7
Homer (Translation by Caroline Alexander)
730 B.C. (This ed. 2015)
