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The Iliad in Prose: Homer's Greek Epic with Selected Writings
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781528770279
Publisher: Wine Dark Press
Published: Oct 20 2021
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This edition of The Iliad is Homer's legendary account of the Trojan War in prose - an epic battle fought over three thousand years ago that left a lasting mark on world history.
Centred on the wrath of Achilles in the final year of the siege, the original poem draws gods and mortal heroes alike, among them Hector, Agamemnon, and Odysseus, into the fighting. Homer's chronicle of the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states is the greatest war story ever told, and numbers among the most important works of Western literature.
Homer's epic was later transformed into flowing English prose by the novelist Samuel Butler in 1898, in a classic translation that opened Homer to readers beyond the verse tradition. Butler made his prose versions so that the epics could be read widely rather than studied narrowly, and his Iliad has stayed in print ever since, carrying the story forward in clear, readable language.
Wine Dark Press is proud to present this foundational epic of Western storytelling in an edition that celebrates its source material, gathered with a selection of essays and writings on Homer and his work - the original myth set down whole, to stand on the shelf beside the stories it began.
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