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Homer's Iliad: A Commentary on Three Translations
Paperback
Series: Classical Studies
Miscellaneous LanguagesLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies
ISBN13: 9781853996573
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 27 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
Homer's mighty epic, the Iliad, is the first work of western literature
and one of the defining masterpieces of our culture. The purpose of
this new line-by-line commentary is to help as wide an audience as
possible to understand and appreciate the poem through the best of
recent scholarship on the man and his work.
his commentary, those of E.V. Rieu (revised and updated by Peter
Jones), Martin Hammond, and Richmond Lattimore.
There is a useful
introduction to the whole work and separate short introductions to each
book of the Iliad. Each passage selected for comment is given a
line-reference and quoted from all three translations.
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