The Iliad

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Title
"The Iliad"
Statement of Responsibility
Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox
Publisher
  • Penguin Books
  • [Rev. ed.]
Publication Year
  • [2001], c1990
Book size
22 cm
Series Name / No
  • : pbk
Other Title
  • Iliad

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Notes

"A note on this printing: this printing contains minor revisions of the text. R.F. and B.K., June 2001"--P. xiv

"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, ... 1990. Published in Penguin Books 1991. This edition published in Penguin Books 1998"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 635-637

Summary: The centuries old epic about the wrath of Achilles is rendered into modern English verse by a renowned translator and accompanied by an introduction that reassesses the identity of Homer. In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes godlike, yet utterly human of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief compel our own humanity. Time after time, one pauses and re-reads before continuing. Fagles' voice is always that of a poet and scholar of our own age as he conveys the power of Homer. Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox are to be congratulated and praised on this admirable work

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