An Iliad, Paperback

An action-packed graphic retelling of Homer's }The Iliad{ from the artist Gareth Hinds, who has also taken on }The Odyssey{ in this format.

For the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926-2011) - political rebel, inventor of the poster poem, pioneer of poetry and jazz - wa...

One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride an...

Reducere. A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of ...

Reducere. In Classical times, the story of the Trojan War was told in a series of eight epic poems known as the Epic Cycle, of which only the Iliad and Odyss...

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, ...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Homer's The Iliad, one of the earliest and most influential wor...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written chronicle in the world, composed three to four thousand years before Christ. It tells events...

This volume is a distinctive critical introduction to Homer's Iliad, the earliest epic poem, and the earliest known work of literature in ancient G...

Reducere. Famously praised by John Keats for speaking 'loud and bold', Chapman's Homer brought Greek poetry and civilization to life for centuries of readers...

Reducere. David J. Melnick published the first book of Men in Aida, a homophonic, but also homoeroticized translation of Homer's epic Iliad, in December 1983...

Reducere. "At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist....A book I could not put down...

Reducere. Set in the final days of the Trojan War, Homer's poem recounts a formative moment in not only Greek culture, but in that of the West as a whole. W....

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He has published his poems in many forms, including - again his own invention - New Numbers, a constantly changing collage, which appears here in i...

War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2, 700 years, the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's dea...

Reducere. George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and po...

Reducere. The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time. Set during the Trojan War, this timeless story vividly conveys the...

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Reducere. Relates in vigorous prose the tale of Aeneas, the legendary ancestor of Romulus, who escaped from the burning city of Troy and wandered the Mediter...

Andrea Catanzaro's new theoretical interpretation offers an incentive to study Hobbes' lesser known works against the wider development of Western ...

Reducere. The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time. Set during the Trojan War, this timeless poem vividly conveys the ...

From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a m...

Reducere. This epic poem is the oldest known to exist in history, predating Homer's Iliad by about 1500 years. Gilgamesh, the hero, discovers he has godly bl...

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The epic tale of Odysseus's journey home - one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature If the Iliad is the world's greatest war ep...

Reducere. In the wake of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey, " poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics which covered other parts of the Trojan W...

Reducere. "Sing, Goddess, sing..." Homer's two epic poems have formed the basis of Western education since antiquity and survive today as enthralling tales o...

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Reducere. The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the oldest story that has come down to us through the ages of history. It predates the BIBLE, the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. T...

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Pe...

DescriptionA story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular st...

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This highly accessible translation of the classic story of Sundiata, a real king who ruled the empire of Mali just south of the Sahara desert from ...

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Reducere. A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it--an extraordinary follow up to The Sil...

Reducere. David R. Slavitt, award-winning author of more than 100 books of poetry and prose, translates the work of Charles Marie RenE Leconte de Lisle, a Fr...

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Reducere. The great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's...

In The Liberation of Jerusalem (1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took ...

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Building on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P. Martin articulates a broad and pr...

Reducere. Composed in the third century A.D., the Trojan Epic is the earliest surviving literary evidence for many of the traditions of the Trojan War passed...

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Reducere. Psychoanalysis has been used with some success to explore literary works, but surprisingly little has been done with Homer. Validity aside, the mai...

Reducere. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847) is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A master of poetic tradition and form, Longfellow wrote Evangeli...

Reducere. DescriptionVirgil's Aeneid: A Study Guide will assist you in your studies of Virgil's Aeneid for A Level examinations in Classical Civilisation or ...

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Reducere. Often referred to as the "Iliad" of medieval Japanese literature, "The Tale of the Heike" is the epic 14th-century story of the struggle between th...

Reducere. The Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if t...

Reducere. The Mahabharata is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come d...

Reducere. "The Mahabharata" is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come...