The Iliad
$15.30
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
5 March 1995
Summary
The product of more than a decade’s continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman’s translation of Homer’s great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans. Chapman regarded the translation of this epic, and of Homer’s Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his li…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781853262425 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853262420 |
| Author: | Homer, Adam Roberts, Dr Keith Carabine |
| Publisher: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Imprint: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 1995 |
| Weight: | 319g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 3mm |
| Series: | Wordsworth Classics |
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Homer
Amongst his previous publications are: Homer (Past Masters, OUP, 1980), Homer on Life and Death (OUP, 1980), Virgil (past Masters, OUP, 1986), co-editor with Murray and Boardman of The Oxford History of the Classical World (OUP, 1986), Homer: The Odyssey (CUP, 1987).
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