The Iliad
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007].
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Book
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9780472116171, 0472116177
Physical Desc:
viii, 464 pages : map ; 25 cm
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PA4025.A2 M46 2007
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Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia.
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: The Iliad. In Wilson's hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its battle scenes, roaring with the clamour of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors and the anguished cries of dying men. Wilson's unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poem's profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even "complicated", human beings. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homer's poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: The Iliad. In Wilson's hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its battle scenes, roaring with the clamour of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors and the anguished cries of dying men. Wilson's unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poem's profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even "complicated", human beings. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homer's poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
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English
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1330
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-25) and index.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Homer., & Merrill, R. (2007). The Iliad. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Homer and Rodney Merrill. 2007. The Iliad. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Homer and Rodney Merrill, The Iliad. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Homer. and Rodney Merrill. The Iliad. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2007.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Singing the Iliad --|t Bibliography --|t Map --|t Book 1 : Forced by Apollo's punishment to return Chryses' daughter, Agamemnon takes Achilles' prize-girl ; Achilles has his mother ask Zeus to favor the Trojans ; Hera finds out and quarrels with Zeus --|t Book 2 : After telling a deceptive dream, Agamemnon orders withdrawal ; Odysseus halts it, then scourges Thersítes for abusing Agamemnon ; the lords rouse the army. Catalog of Achaians and Trojans --|t Book 3 : Paris avoids Meneláos' response to his challenge, then agrees to fight ; from the wall Helen identifies the Achaian lords ; Priam goes and oaths are sworn ; Paris loses, but Aphrodítè takes him away --|t Book 4 : The gods confirm Troy's ruin ; Athena makes Pándaros violate the oaths by wounding Meneláos, whom Macháon treats ; Agamemnon urges the lords ; roused by gods, the armies battle --|t Book 5 : Athena grants Diomédes glory ; he kills Pándaros and wounds Aineías and Aphrodítè ; the Achaian and Trojan lords battle, joined by Athena, Hera, and Ares, whom Diomédes wounds --|t Book 6 : Without any gods the battle continues ; Agamemnon kills Adréstos ; Diomédes and Glaukos talk and exchange armor ; in Troy Hektor encounters Hékabè, Helen, Paris, and Andrómachè --|t Book 7 : Hektor challenges the Achaian lords ; Agamemnon restrains Meneláos, Ajax is chosen, the fight is halted ; Paris will not return Helen ; the dead are buried, the Achaians build defenses --|t Book 8 : Zeus keeps the gods away ; the Achaians flee the Trojans' attack but defend the wall; Hera and Athena plan to aid them, but Zeus forbids it ; at night the Trojans build watchfires -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Book 9 : Heeding Nestor's rebuke, Agamemnon offers gifts to Achilles if he will yield ; Odysseus, Ajax, and Phoinix bear the message and plead with him ; he relents - he will stay but not fight --|t Book 10 : At a night council the Achaians dispatch spies, Diomédes and Odysseus, who capture and kill the Trojan spy Dolon, then slaughter Rhesos and his Thracian troops and report back --|t Book 11 : Agamemnon rampages and is wounded ; Paris and Sokos wound Diomédes, Odysseus, Macháon, and Eurýpylos ; Achilles sends Patróklos to question Nestor, who urges him to enter the battle --|t Book 12 : Battle rages at the wall, which gods later will destroy ; the Trojans keep attacking, despite an omen ; Sarpédon speaks to Glaukos ; Ajax and Teukros fight, and Hektor breaks the gate --|t Book 13 : Poseidon aids the Achaians ; leaders of both sides battle ; at the ships the Ajaxes hold off Hektor, who decides to retreat, but, emboldened by Paris, answers Ajax's jeers and leads on --|t Book 14 : Poseidon encourages the Achaian lords to keep fighting ; Hera plots to make Zeus sleep, aiding Poseidon, who marshals the Achaians ; struck down, Hektor revives ; the Achaians prevail -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Book 15 : Awakening, Zeus sends Iris to stop Poseidon and Apollo to aid the Trojans ; Hektor fights Ajax, then leads his army against the ships with fire ; Ajax, ranging the decks, repels them --|t Book 16 : Yielding to Patróklos' plea, Achilles sends him out with the Mýrmidons ; he kills Sarpédon and routs the Trojans ; Apollo takes the body, rouses Hektor, and helps him kill Patróklos --|t Book 17 : Achaians and Trojans battle over Patróklos' body ; Hektor dons Achilles' armor ; with gods aiding, both sides rally ; Achilles' horses weep ; Meneláos sends Antílochos to tell Achilles --|t Book 18 : Achilles, Thetis, and sea-nymphs lament the heroes' death ; Achilles rescues Patróklos' body ; at Thetis' request, Hephaistos makes arms for her son, including an elaborate shield --|t Book 19 : Receiving the arms, Achilles renounces his wrath ; Agamemnon blames Delusion, which harms even Zeus, and gives both gifts and girl to Achilles ; he arms ; Xanthos foretells his death -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Book 20 : Zeus sends the gods to aid both sides ; Achilles speaks and fights with Aineías, whom Poseidon saves, then faces Hektor ; whom Apollo saves, then keeps on rampaging and killing --|t Book 21 : Achilles kills many men in the river, who begs him to stop, then threatens ; Hera sends Hephaistos to quell the river ; the gods oppose each other ; the Trojans go into the city --|t Book 22 : His parents beg Hektor to come in ; Hektor refuses ; Achilles chases him ; Athena deceives him into stopping ; Achilles strikes him, rejects his dying plea, and drags him ; the women wail --|t Book 23 : In sleep, Achilles sees Patróklos ; he mourns ; the winds light the pyre. The funeral games : chariot-racing, boxing, wrestling, footrace, spear-fight, hurling a lump, archery, and spear-throw --|t Book 24 : Achilles keeps dragging Hektor ; angered, Zeus says he must give up the body ; with Hermes' aid Priam goes to ransom it ; they meet, Achilles restrains the battle, and Hektor is buried --|t List of proper names in the Iliad. |
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