The Iliad: A New Prose Translation

from AbigailAdams26

Translation is everything, so let me begin my review of this foundational masterpiece of Western literature by noting that as it pertains to the question of translators, I am an unabashed partisan ...

from Judith_Starkston

This translation is slow going and a bit awkward for reading pleasure. (See my review of Lombardo's translation for that purpose) But, if you want to know exactly what the Greek says, but you don't...

from LisaMaria_C

I love The Illiad only a little bit less than The Odyssey, the other epic poem attributed to Homer. Together the two works are considered among the oldest surviving works of Western literature, dat...

from Urquhart

Comments on just finishing the Robert Fagles translation: o People say it is a book about anger, but it is certainly also about killing, getting killed, grasping for glory or fame, as well as lovin...

from bookworm12

Set in Ancient Greece, The Iliad is an epic poem about a decade-long war. The book starts when the Trojans and Achaeans have already been at war for years. The war itself begins because Paris (a Tr...