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    The Iliad

    Author Homer
    Introduction by Peter Jones
    Translated by E. V. Rieu
    Revised by Peter Jones, D. C. H. Rieu
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Apr 29, 2003 | 560 Pages | 9780140447941
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    E.V. Rieu’s beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu

    One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals.

    For this Penguin Classics edition, classicist D. C. H. Rieu has revised the work of his father, E. V. Rieu, celebrated translator and founding editor of the Penguin Classics imprint. The book also includes an introduction and notes by Peter V. Jones.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    The IliadForeword
    Introduction
    Introduction to the 1950 Edition
    Notes on this Revision
    The Main Characters
    Further Reading
    Maps:
    1. A reconstruction of Homer's imagined battlefields
    2. The Troad
    3. Trojan places and contingents
    4. Homeric Greece
    5. Greek contingents at Troy
    Preliminaries

    The Iliad
    1. Plague and Wrath
    2. A Dream, a Testing and the Catalogue of Ships
    3. A Duel and a Trojan View of the Greeks
    4. The Oath is Broken and Battle Joined
    5. Diomedes' Heroics
    6. Hector and Andromache
    7. Ajax Fights Hector
    8. Hector Triumphant
    9. The Embassy to Achilles
    10. Diomedes and Odysseus: The Night Attack
    11. Achilles Takes Notice
    12. Hector Storms the Wall
    13. The Battle at the Ships
    14. Zeus Outmanoeuvred
    15. The Greeks at Bay
    16. The Death of Patroclus
    17. The Struggle Over Patroclus
    18. Achilles' Decision
    19. The Feud Ends
    20. Achilles on the Rampage
    21. Achilles Fights the River
    22. The Death of Hector
    23. The Funeral and the Games
    24. Priam and Achilles

    Appendices
    1. A Brief Glossary
    2. Ommitted Fathers' Names

    Index

    Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings. View titles by Homer
    “Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics.” –Atlantic Monthly

    “Fitzgerald’s swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make Homer live as never before…This is for every reader in our time and possibly for all time.”–Library Journal

    “[Fitzgerald’s Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer’s art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase.” –The Yale Review

    “What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent, the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr. Fitzgerald’s.” –National Review

    With an Introduction by Gregory Nagy

    About

    E.V. Rieu’s beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu

    One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals.

    For this Penguin Classics edition, classicist D. C. H. Rieu has revised the work of his father, E. V. Rieu, celebrated translator and founding editor of the Penguin Classics imprint. The book also includes an introduction and notes by Peter V. Jones.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Table of Contents

    The IliadForeword
    Introduction
    Introduction to the 1950 Edition
    Notes on this Revision
    The Main Characters
    Further Reading
    Maps:
    1. A reconstruction of Homer's imagined battlefields
    2. The Troad
    3. Trojan places and contingents
    4. Homeric Greece
    5. Greek contingents at Troy
    Preliminaries

    The Iliad
    1. Plague and Wrath
    2. A Dream, a Testing and the Catalogue of Ships
    3. A Duel and a Trojan View of the Greeks
    4. The Oath is Broken and Battle Joined
    5. Diomedes' Heroics
    6. Hector and Andromache
    7. Ajax Fights Hector
    8. Hector Triumphant
    9. The Embassy to Achilles
    10. Diomedes and Odysseus: The Night Attack
    11. Achilles Takes Notice
    12. Hector Storms the Wall
    13. The Battle at the Ships
    14. Zeus Outmanoeuvred
    15. The Greeks at Bay
    16. The Death of Patroclus
    17. The Struggle Over Patroclus
    18. Achilles' Decision
    19. The Feud Ends
    20. Achilles on the Rampage
    21. Achilles Fights the River
    22. The Death of Hector
    23. The Funeral and the Games
    24. Priam and Achilles

    Appendices
    1. A Brief Glossary
    2. Ommitted Fathers' Names

    Index

    Author

    Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings. View titles by Homer

    Praise

    “Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics.” –Atlantic Monthly

    “Fitzgerald’s swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make Homer live as never before…This is for every reader in our time and possibly for all time.”–Library Journal

    “[Fitzgerald’s Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer’s art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase.” –The Yale Review

    “What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent, the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr. Fitzgerald’s.” –National Review

    With an Introduction by Gregory Nagy

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