“Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus\u2019 son Achilleus \/ and its devastation.” For sixty years, that\u2019s how Homer has begun the\u00a0Iliad<\/i>\u00a0in English, in Richmond Lattimore\u2019s faithful translation\u2014the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.<\/p>\n
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore\u2019s\u00a0Iliad<\/i>\u00a0is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century\u2014while leaving the\u00a0poem<\/i>\u00a0as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore\u2019s elegant, fluent verses\u2014with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek\u2014remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.<\/p>\n
The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer\u2019s poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived\u2014and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[684,685,307],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":["20132"],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n