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Genre/Form: | Poetry Translations Epic poetry Poésie |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Homer. Iliad. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1990 (OCoLC)1085933247 |
Named Person: | Achilles, (Mythological character); Achilles, (Mythological character) |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Homer.; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox |
ISBN: | 0670835102 9780670835102 0140275363 9780140275360 |
OCLC Number: | 20825683 |
Awards: | Winner of Academy of American Poets Landon Translation Award 1991 |
Description: | xvi, 683 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Maps -- Homeric geography: Mainland Greece -- Homeric geography: Peloponnese -- Homeric geography: Aegean and Asia minor -- Inset: Troy and vicinity -- Homer: Iliad -- Rage of Achilles -- Great gathering of Armies -- Helen reviews the champions -- Truce erupts in war -- Diomedes fights the gods -- Hector returns to Troy -- Ajax duels with Hector -- Tide of battle turns -- Embassy of Achilles -- Marauding through the night -- Agamemnon's day of glory -- Trojans storm the rampart -- Battling for the ships -- Hera outflanks Zeus -- Achaean Armies the bay -- Patroclus fights and dies -- Menelaus' finest hour -- Shield of Achilles -- Champion arms for battle -- Olympian gods in arms -- Achilles fights the river -- Death of Hector -- Funeral games for Patroclus -- Achilles and Priam -- Notes: Genealogy of the royal house of Troy -- Textual Variants from the Oxford classical text -- Notes on the translation -- Suggestions for further reading -- Pronouncing glossary. |
Other Titles: | Iliad. |
Responsibility: | Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. |
More information: |
Abstract:
A modern verse translation by Robert Fagles, who also translated Aeschylus' "The Oresteia" and Sophocles' "Three Theban Plays".
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