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The Iliad

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140275360

  • Length: 704  Pages

  • Dimensions: 214mm x 46mm x 157mm

  • Weight: 756g

  • RRP: £12.99

The Iliad

  • Homer

  • Bernard Knox (Introducer)

  • Robert Fagles (Translator)

One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves to its tragic conclusion. In his introduction, Bernard Knox observes that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140275360

  • Length: 704  Pages

  • Dimensions: 214mm x 46mm x 157mm

  • Weight: 756g

  • RRP: £12.99

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Homer

Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have composed the two great oral poems The Odyssey and The Iliad in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece. Robert Fitzgerald was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus at Harvard University.He was a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.He published four volumes of his own verse during his lifetime.His translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad, and of Virgil's Aeniad, won him many honours and are universally acknowledged to be among the finest of their kind this century. He died in 1985.

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