The Iliad of Homer

Reducere. "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Ric...

Reducere. DescriptionAlexander Pope was born on May 21st, 1688 in London into a Catholic family. His education was affected by the recent Test Acts, upholdin...

Reducere. This introductory Homer reader, entirely in Ancient Greek, sets the student of the 21st century along the same paths of learning by which Homer was...

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...

DescriptionBook 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. It describes the reaction of the hero Achilles to...

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. Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - sce...

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

This high interest/low vocabulary retelling of The Iliad introduces young readers to Homer's thrilling epic tale. Set during the siege of Troy, The...

The twenty-fourth book of the Iliad is one of the masterpieces of world literature, a work of interest to a far wider audience than scholars of anc...

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history ...

Reducere. In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in favor of attendi...

Examines the composition of the }Iliad{ and the }Odyssey{ and their susequent influence.

Reducere. The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns are "Homeric" in the sense ...

Reducere. This collection includes both of the greatest Greek stories ever told and numbers amongst the most important works of Western literature. "The Illi...

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...

A translation of Homer's great epic poem. Fitzgerald has also translated Homer's "The Odyssey" and Virgil's "Aeneid".Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): ...

Reducere. A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles s award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature ONE OF THE PREEMINENT tran...

Reducere. Travel back to a mythical time when Achilles, aided by the gods, waged war against the Trojans. And join Odysseus on his journey through murky wate...

Description"Other competent translations of Homer exist, but none accomplish what Merrill aims for: to convey to the reader-listener in translation...

Longley is well-known for his Homeric versions, and the Iliad is a presiding presence - both in poems about the Great War and in the range of image...

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

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. The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despai...

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...

Reducere. The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the oldest works of Western literature--yet these ancient myths still offer powerful lessons for our times. Fr...

Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, composed between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to fill in t...

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...

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

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

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

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collec...

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...

Reducere. This handsome boxed set of Homer's epics -- powerfully retold by Gillian Cross and strikingly illustrated by Neil Packer -- belongs on every reader...

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. 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...

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. 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....

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...

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. 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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Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): HomerNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 199 x 128 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softb...

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...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): HomerIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 34Cov...

Reducere. Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of ...

Reducere. Tuzagi, which means "trap" in Turkish, is graphic novel comprised of 6 interlocking short stories set in Gallipoli, specifically at Suvla Bay on Au...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

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 ...

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...

Reducere. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fi...

"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven / far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy" Twenty years after setting out...

Reducere. The authoritative edition of Troilus and Cressida from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students ...

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. An incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny. As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politi...

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 ...

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. Epic story or historical fact? Historians disagree whether the Trojan War was either - or both! Around 1, 200 BCE, war raged between the Ancient Gr...