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Iliad

By Homer, Stanley Lombardo
576 pages

Contributors:: Homer
Stanley Lombardo
Publisher:: Hackett
Place of publication:: Indianapolis, IN
Publication year:: 1997
Subjects:: Epic Poetry, Greek--Translations Into English
Achilles (Greek Mythology)--Poetry
Trojan War--Poetry

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In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of The Iliad does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original.

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