The Iliad Of Homer (Paperback)

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 for the Richmond Lattimore camp. I have had the pleasure of reading Homer's Iliad in the original cl...

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 know any Greek (a tragedy, but I realize there are lots of people who suffer from this!), then this...

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, dating to probably the eighth century BCE, and are certainly among the most influential. The Illiad dea...

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 loving. o For someone like myself who finds cultural historiography fascinating, the book is an excellent...

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 Trojan), steals Helen, the wife of Menelaus (an Achaean). This gives the Achaeans an excuse to load up...