The Iliad 1th edition
ISBN:0374529051
ISBN13:9780374529055
Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Authors:Robert Fitzgerald, Homer, Robert F. Homer, Andrew Ford
The Iliad Description
The Iliad 1 Edition Anger be now your song, immortal one,Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter lossand crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men-carrionfor dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.-Lines 1-6Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that "makes Homer live as never before" (Library Journal). This edition includes a new foreword by Andrew Ford.