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The Iliad
- Author : Homer
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2007
- Total pages :464
- ISBN : 0472116177
Summary : In 2002, the University of Michigan Press published Rodney Merrill's translation of Homer's Odyssey, an interpretation of the classic that was unique in employing the meter of Homer's original. Praising Merrill's translation of the Odyssey, Gregory Nagy of Harvard wrote, "Merrill's fine ear for the sound of ancient Greek makes the experience of reading his Homer the nearest thing in English to actually hearing Homer. The translator's English renders most faithfully the poet's ancient Greek---not only the words and meaning but even the voice." Merrill has now produced an edition of Homer's Iliad, following the same approach. This form of rendering is particularly relevant to the Iliad, producing a strong musical setting that many elements of the narrative require to come truly to life. Most notable are the many battle scenes, to which the strong meter gives an impetus embodying and making credible the "war-lust" in the deeds of the combatants. For many years, until his retirement, Rodney Merrill taught English composition and comparative literature at Stanford and Berkeley. In addition to his translation of Homer's Odyssey, he is the author of "Chaucer's Broche of Thebes." Jacket photograph © 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "Other competent translations of Homer exist, but none accomplish what Merrill aims for: to convey to the reader-listener in translation the meaning and the sounds of Homer, coming as close as possible to the poetry of the original. Merrill accomplishes this virtuosic achievement by translating Homer's Greek into English hexameters, a process requiring not only a full understanding of the original Greek, but also an unusual mastery of the sounds, rhythms, and nuances of English." ---Stephen G. Daitz, Professor Emeritus of Classics, City University of New York "This is a faithful and powerful rendition of the original Greek. With his deep understanding of the language, [Merrill] has succeeded in capturing the heroic essence of the Homeric Iliad." ---Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and author of Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
The Iliad
- Author : Gareth Hinds
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2019-03-12
- Total pages :270
- ISBN : 9781893131620
Summary : More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer’s legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. This stunning graphic novel captures all the grim glory of Homer’s epic. Dynamic illustrations take readers directly to the plains of Troy, into the battle itself, and lay bare the complex emotions of the men, women, and gods whose struggles fueled the war and determined its outcome.
The Iliad
- Author : Ralph E. Blakely,Homer
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2015-12-08
- Total pages :496
- ISBN : 9781429997287
Summary : One of the most important and influential works of the Western Canon, The Iliad has long been a favorite of scholars and laypeople, embraced by famed artists from Shakespeare to Brad Pitt. The Iliad opens in the late stages of the Trojan War, and, with reflection on prior battles, follows through the sacking of Troy and the Greeks' bitter victory. Spanning the defeats, allegiances, victories, and vengeances of mortals and Gods alike, this epic poem of the ages still manages to be intensely relevant to modern readers. The major thematic thrusts (glory, honor, wrath, and fate) are both the stuff of legend and part of our ongoing experience. Now, in an updated prose translation from the original Greek, Blakely focuses his Iliad on the gripping heroics of Achilles and Patroclus, recounting a relatable tale of angry young men striving for glory, trapped by fate into prescribed warrior roles. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Iliad
- Author : Homer
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2008
- Total pages :512
- ISBN : 0806139749
Summary : An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers
The Iliad
- Author : Homer,,Robert Fitzgerald
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2008-07-10
- Total pages :496
- ISBN : 9780199536795
Summary : The Iliad is the story of a few days' fighting in the tenth year of the legendary war between the Greeks and the Trojans, which broke out when Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, abducted the fabulously beautiful Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. After a quarrel between the Greek commander, Agamemnon, and the greatest of the Greek warriors, Achilles, the gods become more closely involved in the action. Their intervention leads to the tragic death of Hector, the Trojan leader, and to the final defeat of the Trojans. But the Iliad is much more than a series of battle scenes. It is a work of extraordinary pathos and profundity that concerns itself with issues as fundamental as the meaning of life and death. Even the heroic ethic itself - with its emphasis on pride, honour, prowess in battle, and submission to the inexorable will of the gods - is not left unquestioned.
The Iliad of Homer
- Author : Homère
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1924
- Total pages :634
- ISBN : 1230987654XX
Summary :
The Iliad
- Author : Homéros,Homer
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1987
- Total pages :464
- ISBN : STANFORD:36105040889201
Summary : Contains a prose translation of the Homeric epic recounting the triumphs and defeats of the Greek and Trojan heroes
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 1, Books 1-4
- Author : G. S. Kirk,Homer,Mark W. Edwards,Richard Janko,John Bryan Hainsworth,Nicholas James Richardson
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1985-02-28
- Total pages :436
- ISBN : 0521281717
Summary : This Commentary will be an essential reference work for all students of Greek literature.
The Iliad (Collins Classics)
- Author : Homer
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2012-05-31
- Total pages :720
- ISBN : 9780007477388
Summary : HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Iliad
- Author : Karin Sisti
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1985
- Total pages :76
- ISBN : 0600310612
Summary :
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6, Books 21-24
- Author : G. S. Kirk,Mark W. Edwards,Richard Janko,Nicholas Richardson,John Bryan Hainsworth
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1985
- Total pages :408
- ISBN : 0521312094
Summary : The sixth and final volume of this major Commentary on Homer's Iliad. The introduction discusses the structure and main themes of the poem, its relationship to the Odyssey, and its interpretation in antiquity.
The Iliad
- Author : Homer,Caroline Alexander
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2015-11-24
- Total pages :608
- ISBN : 9780062046291
Summary : With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan War Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war. Soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished, hero and coward, men, women, young, old—The Iliad evokes in poignant, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Trojan War. And, as told by Homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages. Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander’s new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source—a translation epic in scale and yet devastating in its precision and power.
Nature and Culture in the Iliad
- Author : James M. Redfield
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1994
- Total pages :317
- ISBN : 0822314223
Summary : By focusing on the story of Hector, James M. Redfield presents an imaginative perspective not only on the Iliad but also on the whole of Homeric culture. In an expansive discussion informed by a reinterpretation of Aristotle's Poetics and a reflection on the human meaning of narrative art, the analysis of Hector leads to an inquiry into the fundamental features of Homeric culture and of culture generally in its relation to nature. Through Hector, as the "true tragic hero of the poem," the events and themes of the Iliad are understood and the function of tragedy within culture is examined. Redfield's work represents a significant application of anthropological perspectives to Homeric poetry. Originally published in 1975 (University of Chicago Press), this revised edition includes a new preface and concluding chapter by the author.
The Iliad, tr. into Engl. blank verse by W.C. Bryant
- Author : Homerus
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1870
- Total pages :229
- ISBN : OXFORD:555090928
Summary :
The Iliad - Homer, Updated Edition
- Author : Harold Bloom
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2009-01-01
- Total pages :229
- ISBN : 9781438113944
Summary : Attributed to Homer, The Iliad, along with The Odyssey, is among the oldest literary documents in the Greek language. This epic war story depicts seven key weeks during the battle for Ilium, or Troy, culminating in the decisive battle betwee
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- Author : Julian Jaynes
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2000-08-15
- Total pages :508
- ISBN : 9780547527543
Summary : National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
The Iliad of Homer
- Author : Homer
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1850
- Total pages :617
- ISBN : UOM:39015029500264
Summary :
Chapman's Homer
- Author : Homer,George Chapman
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1998
- Total pages :613
- ISBN : 0691002363
Summary : This volume presents the original 1611 text of George Chapman's translation, tapping into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the "Iliad"'s warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.
Homer and the Iliad: Notes
- Author : John Stuart Blackie
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1866
- Total pages :229
- ISBN : NYPL:33433074383641
Summary :
The Iliad ¬of ¬Homer
- Author : Homerus
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1732
- Total pages :229
- ISBN : BSB:BSB10233333
Summary :
The Iliad of Homer: Books 1-12
- Author : Homer
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1870
- Total pages :229
- ISBN : NYPL:33433074383476
Summary :