Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Paperback

These retellings of the Iliad and Odyssey from author of the }Demon Headmaster{ Gillian Cross are deceptively simple, accessible, and faithful to t...

Offers a bilingual text and features a translation of the canticle of "The Divine Comedy" by the translator of Virgil's "Aeneid" and Homer's "Iliad...

Reducere. Homer's epic poems in a more readable format for today's enthusiasts The Iliad - the tale of the Trojan War, up to the death of Hector, which all r...

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, ...

DescriptionHomer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential wor...

Reducere. "ONCE upon a time there was a certain King of Sparta who had a most beautiful daughter, Helen by name. There was not a prince in Greece but wished ...

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. 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 ...

Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over ...

The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the ...

Reducere. "Complex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad...

"Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato."--Emerson The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpie...

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...

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

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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. 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. 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...

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

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DescriptionCondemned to burn in the eighth circle of Dante's Hell, Odysseus, legendary thief and liar of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, decides he is g...

Reducere. DescriptionBorn and raised in a Longford, Ireland workhouse, Padraic Colum left home at seventeen to become a clerk in the Irish Railway Clearing H...

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 ...

Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive t...