The Iliad
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High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate. This is the Iliad: an ancient story of enduring power; magnetic characters defined by stirring and momentous speeches; a panorama of human lives locked in a heroic struggle beneath a mischievous or indifferent heaven. Above all, this is a tale of the devastation, waste and pity of war.
Main title:
The Iliad / Homer ; translated by Emily Wilson.
Author:
Homer, authorWilson, Emily R., 1971-, translator
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Collation:
lxxv, 761 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Translated from the Ancient Greek.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781324076148 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
883.01
Language:
EnglishGreek, Ancient (to 1453)
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BRN:
2740020
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