Description: When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time.The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world―the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters―both human and divine.The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation. Thank you for your business!
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Type: Novel
EAN: 9781324001805
ISBN: 9781324001805
Release Year: 2023
Publication Name: The Iliad
Translator: Emily Wilson
Title: The Iliad
ISBN-10: 1324001801
Contributor: Emily Wilson (Translated by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Release Date: 09/26/2023
Book Title: Iliad
Number of Pages: 848 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Height: 1.7 in
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: Epic, European / General, Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Weight: 40.6 Oz
Author: Homer
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover