The Iliad (Classical Culture) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Iliad An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers
Full description- Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
- Published: 31 December 2008
- Format: Paperback 544 pages
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- Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780806139746 ISBN 10: 0806139749
- Sales rank: 957,682
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Full description for The Iliad
"An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers"A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's "Iliad" captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the original Greek into English blank verse--the poetic form most closely resembling our spoken language.Raising the bar set by Richmond Lattimore in 1951, Jordan employs a pleasing five-beat meter and avoids unnecessary filler. Whereas other verse renditions are longer than the original, owing to the translators' indulgence in personal poetics, Jordan avoids "line inflation." The result, an economical translation, captures the force and vigor of the original poem.E. Christian Kopff's introduction to this volume sets the stage and credits Jordan with conveying the action and movement of the "Iliad" in "contemporary language and a supple verse." This new "Iliad" offers twenty-first-century readers the thrill of a timeless epic and affords instructors a much-needed alternative for literature surveys.
