{"product_id":"the-iliad-isbn-9780679410751","title":"The Iliad","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original.\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 NagyHomer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of the siege of Troy, and \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304852574437,"sku":"NP9780679410751","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679410751.jpg?v=1767739903","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-iliad-isbn-9780679410751","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}