Ἰλιάς
About this book
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.
The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived—and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.
Subjects
- achilles (greek mythology)
- achilles (greek mythology) in literature
- adventure
- aquiles (mitología griega)
- classical literature
- classical philology
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- criticism and interpretation
- dactylic hexameter
- early works to 1800
- english language
- epic poem
- epic poetry
- epic poetry, history and criticism
- fiction
- fiction (fictional works by one author)
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- greek epic poetry
- greek gods
- greek language
- greek language, readers
- greek mythology
- greek poetry
- greeks
- guerra de troya
- hector (legendary character)
- helen of troy (greek mythology)
- hexameter
- history and criticism
- homer
- hymns, greek (classical)
- in literature
- literary collections / ancient, classical & medieval
- literatura grega clássica
- literature and the war
- medieval and modern latin literature
- miami university (oxford, ohio)
- odysseus (greek mythology)
- open library staff picks
- poesía
- poesia épica
- poesía épica griega
- poetry
- poetry (poetic works by one author)
- textual criticism
- trojan war
- trojan war. fast (ocolc)fst01157294
- trojan war in literature
- trojan war, literature and the war