{"product_id":"the-iliad-isbn-9780140447941","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cb\u003eE.V. Rieu’s beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to the 1950 Edition\u003cbr\u003eNotes on this Revision\u003cbr\u003eThe Main Characters\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003eMaps:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1. A reconstruction of Homer's imagined battlefields\u003cbr\u003e2. The Troad\u003cbr\u003e3. Trojan places and contingents\u003cbr\u003e4. Homeric Greece\u003cbr\u003e5. Greek contingents at Troy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreliminaries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Plague and Wrath\u003cbr\u003e2. A Dream, a Testing and the Catalogue of Ships\u003cbr\u003e3. A Duel and a Trojan View of the Greeks\u003cbr\u003e4. The Oath is Broken and Battle Joined\u003cbr\u003e5. Diomedes' Heroics\u003cbr\u003e6. Hector and Andromache\u003cbr\u003e7. Ajax Fights Hector\u003cbr\u003e8. Hector Triumphant\u003cbr\u003e9. The Embassy to Achilles\u003cbr\u003e10. Diomedes and Odysseus: The Night Attack\u003cbr\u003e11. Achilles Takes Notice\u003cbr\u003e12. Hector Storms the Wall\u003cbr\u003e13. The Battle at the Ships\u003cbr\u003e14. Zeus Outmanoeuvred\u003cbr\u003e15. The Greeks at Bay\u003cbr\u003e16. The Death of Patroclus\u003cbr\u003e17. The Struggle Over Patroclus\u003cbr\u003e18. Achilles' Decision\u003cbr\u003e19. The Feud Ends\u003cbr\u003e20. Achilles on the Rampage\u003cbr\u003e21. Achilles Fights the River\u003cbr\u003e22. The Death of Hector\u003cbr\u003e23. The Funeral and the Games\u003cbr\u003e24. Priam and Achilles\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. A Brief Glossary\u003cbr\u003e2. Ommitted Fathers' Names\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e“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.” –\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”–\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Fitzgerald’s \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” –\u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an Introduction by Gregory Nagy\u003cb\u003eHomer \u003c\/b\u003ewas probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer – the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e – are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is the original collection of tall traveller’s tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact ‘Homer’ may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps ‘the hostage’ or ‘the blind one’. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years’ time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. V. Rieu \u003c\/b\u003ewas a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964. His son, D. C. H. Rieu has revised his work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is former lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. C. H. Rieu \u003c\/b\u003eis the son of E. V. Rieu, celebrated translator from Latin and Greek and Editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is former lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303352553701,"sku":"NP9780140447941","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140447941.jpg?v=1767739902","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-iliad-isbn-9780140447941","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}